Bharat Jodo Yatra objective is to bring India together, not polls: Rahul
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said the objective of the Bharat Jodo Yatra was not 2024 general elections but to unite the people of the country, as he alleged that the BJP-RSS were spreading "violence and hatred".
Addressing a press conference here during the yatra, he said thousands of crores of media money has been spent in trying to project him in a way which is just "untruthful and wrong", and the people who care to look carefully will see what his truth is.
Gandhi also said he believes in 'tapasya' and wanted an element of suffering in his communication to people and, therefore, he decided to undertake the 3,500 km from Kanyakumari to Kashmir on-foot journey.
He said the yatra's objective was to bring India together and not the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
"The objective as I have stated is to bring India together. Objective from my perspective is not the 2024 elections, I am seeing that India is being divided, violence is being spread in our society and this is damag