'Impact Of Bharat Jodo Yatra Already Being Felt': Congress's Swipe At PM Modi's Visit To Southern States
PM Modi is on his two-day visit to the southern states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana from Friday.
New Delhi: Amid the ongoing Congress's Bharat Jodo Yatra which was started on 7 September with the aim of uniting the country against the BJP, Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh on Friday took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to four southern states and said the impact of the opposition party's Bharat Jodo Yatra is already being felt.
"PM is now on a 2-day visit of 4 South Indian states that the Yatra has been through. There will undoubtedly be big photo-ops for camera-jeevi. But no antics can match the connect from walking with and LISTENING to the people," Ramesh said in a tweet.
The impact of #BharatJodoYatra is already being felt. PM is now on a 2-day visit of 4 South Indian states that the Yatra has been through. There will undoubtedly be big photo-ops for camera-jeevi. But no antics can match the connect from walking with & LISTENING to the people.
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) November 11, 2022
PM Modi is on his two-day visit to the southern states of Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana from Friday and is scheduled to attend several events and lay the foundation stone for projects worth over ₹ 25,000 crores.
As per the plan of the Congress party, the Bharat Jodo Yatra, which started from Kanyakumari on 7 September, will cover a distance of 3,570 km through 12 states and two union territories of the country and will end at Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir in the next 150 days.
On Thursday, Gandhi marched on foot through Nanded with the support of leaders of Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party, a partner of the Congress in the previous Maha Vikas Aghadi administration in Maharashtra, and Bollywood star Sushant Singh.