Last Update: March 03, 2023, 12:15 PM IST
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi delivering a lecture as a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge in London on March 1, 2023. (Twitter/@INCIndia)
Speaking at the University of Cambridge, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said his Join India tour in Kashmir was a “new narrative”.
congress leader Rahul Gandhi has said that she was told by security personnel in Jammu and Kashmir that he would throw grenades at her, adding that a man walking next to her pointed out that she was staring at him as her Bharat Jodo Yatra passed by Terrorists were present in the crowd. through Kashmir.
Speaking at the University of Cambridge, Gandhi said his India Jodo trip to Kashmir was a “new narrative” and shared how he realized the power of nonviolence and listening.
“We were told that we were going to be killed. During the journey a person asked to be called to walk next to me. He told me ‘look at those boys (in the crowd) over there’. He said ‘they are militants and they are watching you’. He gave me this form; I thought I was in trouble now,” Gandhi said.
“They (terrorists) couldn’t really do anything, even if they wanted to, they didn’t have the power. Because I came in an environment in which there was no violence. It was to me an indicator of nonviolence and the power of listening,” Gandhi said.
He said that when he was entering Kashmir, the security personnel told him that he cannot walk in Kashmir. “I was walking for three days in the worst districts of Kashmir. The security personnel told me that hand grenades would be thrown at you. But I wanted to walk, so I said if it’s grenades, let it be grenades. We saw the Indian flag coming up everywhere during the trip. Around 40,000 people demonstrated against the 2,000 who were expected,” Gandhi said.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra ended on January 30 with a show of strength by leaders of several parties with Rahul Gandhi as he kicked off his ambitious 145-day yatra, covering a distance of nearly 4,000 km from Kanyakumari to Kashmir Went.
The former Congress president unfurled the tricolor at the yatra camp and then went to the Pradesh Congress Committee office where party chief Mallikarjun Kharge unfurled the national flag. From there he went to Sher-e-Kashmir Cricket Stadium at the foothills of Shankaracharya Hills for the rally marking the grand finale of the cross-country journey.
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