New Delhi: Whereas on his second outreach walkathon ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Tuesday reiterated his get together management’s stand as he mentioned that the RSS and BJP had made the 22 January Ram temple pran pratishtha “a completely political Narendra Modi function”.
Talking to reporters in Kohima, Nagaland, he mentioned this was the exact cause why Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge had mentioned that he wouldn’t attend the ceremony.
Kharge, together with Sonia Gandhi and Congress’s Lok Sabha chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, have declined the 22 January invite — calling it a “political project of the BJP and the RSS”.
Rahul mentioned that the get together was open to “all religions, all practices”, however the “biggest authorities of the Hindu religion” had additionally made their views public about what they thought in regards to the 22 January “political” operate.
Final week, Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) working president Alok Kumar had advised PTI that not one of the 4 Shankaracharyas (heads of the 4 non secular mutts) would attend the ceremony.
In a video nevertheless, Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati, the forty sixth Shankaracharya of the Jyotir Mutt, mentioned the choice of the 4 shankaracharyas shouldn’t be construed as being “anti-Modi” however was taken as a result of they didn’t need to be “anti-shastra”.
Rahul mentioned that it was, subsequently, tough for the Congress to attend a political operate designed across the Prime Minister and the RSS. “We made it clear that whoever wants to visit the Ram Temple among our partners, our party… is more than welcome. But it is difficult for us to go.”
There may be, nevertheless, angst throughout the Congress excessive management’s determination to skip the Ram Temple inauguration, with some leaders calling it “unfortunate” and “suicidal”.
The excessive command defended its stance by saying in an announcement that the BJP and its ideological mother or father RSS had “brought forward the inauguration of the incomplete temple for electoral gain”.
Gujarat Congress working president Ambarish Der, nevertheless, believes such statements had been disappointing for state Congress employees like him.
He wrote in a put up on X: “It is natural that the faith of countless people across India has been attached to this newly-constructed temple over the years. Some people of the Congress party should maintain distance from that particular kind of statement and respect the public sentiment wholeheartedly.”
‘My yatra is ideological’
Rahul Gandhi exuded confidence Tuesday in regards to the Opposition INDIA alliance’s probabilities in opposition to the BJP within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, however added that his cross-country march from the east to the west was ideological.
“I see the INDIA alliance placed very well. But this yatra is ideological. It is designed to place certain issues on the table, particularly that of injustice which is taking place in this country. We will fight the election campaign and take part in the election process. But this yatra is an alternative vision to what the BJP portrays,” he advised a reporter.
Rahul’s second march, which started from Imphal on 14 January, will cowl 6,713 kilometres over 66 days, passing by way of 15 states, with a few of the journey by automobile. It would finish in Mumbai on 20 March.
“I wanted this march to be on foot. But that would have been very long and there was not much time. So, this is a hybrid yatra,” he advised reporters.
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