Going Back To My Roots”: Rahul Gandhi As Yatra Enters Jammu And Kashmir

Lakhanpur, Jammu and Kashmir: 

Entering Jammu and Kashmir on the last leg of his Bharat Jodo Yatra, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi accused the Centre of indulging in mass pickpocketing by diverting the attention of people and then looting them.

Addressing a rally here, the former Congress president said he had walked from Kanyakumari to Kashmir and talked to thousands of people.

As dusk fell and temperatures dipped, hundreds of people walked alongside Gandhi. In a customary handover function, Punjab’s Congress unit gave the party flag to a leader from the Jammu and Kashmir wing.

“The BJP and RSS have spread hatred. I earlier thought it ran deep but it does not and is mainly seen on television,” Mr Gandhi said in his first stop in Jammu and Kashmir, about 90 km from Jammu.

He listed hatred, violence, unemployment and price rise as the main issues confronting the country and blamed the media for not highlighting them.

Criticising the media for not focusing on the right issues, he said it uses topics such as Bollywood stars Aishwarya Rai and Akshay Kumar to divert the attention of people.

There was one more point about two India’s in making – one for poor and one for the corporate world, he said.