Last Update: January 10, 2023, 2:23 PM IST
The Haryana phase of the march ended on Tuesday (Photo: PTI)
The yatra had entered Haryana’s Panipat from neighboring Uttar Pradesh last Thursday and later passed through Karnal and Kurukshetra districts before ending in Ambala district.
congress leader Rahul Gandhi Before starting the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Punjab on Wednesday, he will pay obeisance at the Golden Temple in Amritsar this afternoon.
The Haryana phase of the march ended on Tuesday.
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh tweeted, “Day 116 – #BharatJodoYatra now ends Haryana leg in Ambala. 2mrw morning is Punjab leg. No better way to start it than with a pilgrimage to the holiest Golden Temple in Amritsar.” Can.
Ramesh tweeted, “There will be no padyatra this afternoon so that Rahul Gandhi can pay his respects there.”
Earlier, Rahul Gandhi started his padayatra from Shahpur in Ambala Cantt.
The yatra had entered Haryana’s Panipat from neighboring Uttar Pradesh last Thursday and later passed through Karnal and Kurukshetra districts before ending in Ambala district.
After halting at New Anaj Mandi, Sirhind in Punjab’s Fatehgarh Sahib on Tuesday night, the Punjab leg of the yatra will resume from there on Wednesday morning.
During the Haryana leg of the yatra, Gandhi was accompanied by senior Congress leaders including Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Kumari Selja, Randeep Singh Surjewala, Deepender Singh Hooda and state Congress chief Uday Bhan.
As soon as the march passed through Haryana, a large number of common people joined it.
The yatra covered a distance of over 130 kms in its first leg in Haryana from December 21 to December 23 via Nuh, Gurugram and Faridabad districts. It entered Haryana from Uttar Pradesh via Panipat on Thursday evening.
The yatra, which began on September 7 from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, will end in Srinagar by January 30, with Gandhi hoisting the national flag in the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir.
The march has so far reached Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.
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