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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addresses supporters during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, near Red Fort, in Delhi on December 24. (Image: PTI)
Despite the bone-chilling cold, Chaudhary was seen wearing a white T-shirt like Gandhi, who has been in discussion for wearing T-shirts in winters during the Bharat Jodo Yatra.
congress leader Rahul Gandhi The Uttar Pradesh leg of the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ was resumed on Thursday morning from Shamli, from where it will enter Haryana. Scores of people joined the Congress leader in carrying the tricolor in Baghpat on Wednesday, but the person who grabbed attention was Meerut-based party worker and 52-year-old Gandhi lookalike Faisal Chowdhary.
Despite the bone-chilling cold, Chowdhary was seen wearing a white T-shirt similar to Gandhi, who has been in the news for wearing T-shirts that he wore for most of the journey in winters.
Talking to news agency ANI, Choudhary said, ‘I am a member of the Meerut Congress Committee. I have been walking since yesterday afternoon (Tuesday). People say I look like Rahul Gandhi. It looks great. They also click pictures with me. More importantly, I am also a Congress worker.”
Asked about the impact of the march, he said, “This visit will give a positive message. We have been raising the issues of farmers and unemployment.”
Gandhi said on Wednesday that her being in a T-shirt was not the real issue during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, while slamming the media for “not paying attention” to people in tattered clothes walking with her.
Addressing a ‘nukkad sabha’ at Baraut on the Baghpat-Shamli border during the march, Gandhi also said the yatra was aimed at removing hatred and violence being spread in the country and drawing people’s attention to inflation Is. and unemployment.
My being in T-shirt is not the real question, the real question is why the farmers, poor laborers and their children of the country are in torn clothes, T-shirts and without sweaters.
The former Congress president said that despite walking a distance of more than 3000 kilometers in 110 days, he neither felt tired nor was shivering in the cold in a T-shirt.
Eighty-year-old sharpshooter Prakashi Tomar, popularly known as “Shooter Dadi”, a native of Baghpat, joined the yatra at the invitation of the Congress party.
While the president of the Samajwadi Party Akhilesh Yadav And while BSP supremo Mayawati extended moral support to the yatra but stayed away from it, some local leaders and activists including Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) district unit chief Rampal Dhama joined the yatra in UP.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra, which began on September 7 from Kanyakumari, will conclude on January 30 with the unfurling of the national flag by Gandhi in Srinagar.
In 108 days, the march has covered 49 districts in nine states and one union territory – Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana and Delhi.
(With inputs from PTI)
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