NEW DELHI: With a lot fanfare, the Congress’ “Bharat Jodo Yatra” entered its fourth day on Sunday however the celebration appeared divided over the yatra’s route map, notably the exclusion of Gujarat. Many within the celebration need the marketing campaign to cowl the poll-bound state.

Insiders declare that many leaders, even when the yatra was within the strategy planning stage, had wished it to cowl Gujarat. Nonetheless, the yatra planners argued that it was logistically not attainable to incorporate the state, as that might have added to the length of the long-drawn marketing campaign stretching over 3,500 km and 150 days from Kanyakumari to Kashmir.

Nonetheless, a Congress chief, on the situation of anonymity, stated that Gujarat ought to have been on the map of the yatra because it was a poll-bound. He added, “A number of leaders from Gujarat have left the celebration. AAP can be making its presence felt within the state. The yatra would have given an enormous enhance to the celebration. It’s surprising that the leaders who had been planning this yatra didn’t take this under consideration.”

Aside from Gujarat, the yatra additionally skips a lot of the jap states. Seeing the success of the yatra within the preliminary phases, the celebration cadres need the yatra to go to their respective states as nicely.

In accordance with sources, leaders from Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh had requested the yatra organising committee to incorporate each the poll-bound states within the marketing campaign. Nonetheless, the organising committee ignored these calls for. The Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh leaders had been as a substitute instructed to start out their very own yatras of their respective states and take part the primary yatra.

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