Congress Bharat Jodo Yatra Live: Day 5 of Rahul Gandhi’s padyatra kicks off from Thiruvananthapuram

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi with celebration leaders waves at supporters throughout the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ at Parassala, Thiruvananthapuram, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. (PTI Photo)

As Rahul Gandhi started the second day of his Bharat Jodo Yatra, he was joined by the crew behind ‘Village Cooking Channel’, a preferred YouTube channel that has round 1.79 crore subscribers. Rahul had tried his hand at cooking with these YouTubers throughout a visit to Tamil Nadu in January 2021. On the menu was mushroom biryani and onion-curd salad, with Gandhi lending a hand within the preparation earlier than sitting all the way down to eat.

The polyglot in Jairam Ramesh was on full show Friday. Ahead of a press convention addressed by Rahul Gandhi, Ramesh spoke to the restive press corps, who had been hustling to seek out seats and digicam positions, in English, Hindi, Tamil and Kannada. One individual, one query, he instructed the gathered reporters earlier than smiling and referring to the Congress’s one-person-one-post rule.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah and his Cabinet colleague Smriti Irani, who holds the Woman and Child Welfare portfolio, on Saturday attacked Congress chief Rahul Gandhi over his ongoing ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra‘.

Attending a BJP occasion in Jodhpur, Shah mentioned the Congress chief who had as soon as mentioned that “India is not a nation” is now out to “unite” the nation carrying a “foreign-make” T-shirt, whereas advising the latter to learn the historical past of India. Irani, at a celebration occasion close to Bengaluru, mentioned Rahul was strolling with individuals who chanted ‘anti-India’ slogans, an obvious reference to Congress chief Kanhaiya Kumar.

“Rahul Baba has embarked on Bharat Jodo Yatra, wearing foreign jersey…foreign T-shirt. Friends, I want to remind him what he had said in Parliament — ‘Bharat is not a nation’. Arrey Rahul Baba, in which book you have read this? This is that nation for which lakhs of people have sacrificed their heads and coloured the land red. This is that nation where thousands of sisters committed ‘jauhar’ for honour and for the country. But this doesn’t seem like a country to you?,” mentioned Shah, whereas addressing Rajasthan BJP sales space functionaries in Jodhpur.