Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday visited the Golden Temple in Amritsar as the Bharat Jodo Yatra entered into Punjab.
“Bharat Jodo Yatra finishes Haryana leg in Ambala now. Tomorrow morning is the Punjab leg. There can be no better way to begin that than with a pilgrimage to the holiest Golden Temple in Amritsar. There’ll be no padayatra this afternoon so that Rahul Gandhi can pay his respects there,” senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh had said in a tweet.
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Addressing a press conference in Ambala, Ramesh said that there will be no padyatra in Punjab after 1pm on January 12 and 13 in view of the Lohri celebrations. The yatra will resume on January 14 and Gandhi will address a press conference in Jalandhar on January 15.
The yatra had covered around 130 km during the first phase in Haryana from December 21-23, passing through Nuh, Gurugram and Faridabad districts.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra, which started from Kanyakumari on September 7, will end with Gandhi hoisting the national flag in Srinagar on January 30.
The march has so far covered Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, three Haryana districts (in the first phase), Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.