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Congress chief Rahul Gandhi
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi visited the Swaraj Ashram in Surat on Sunday and paid tributes to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel over the last leg of his ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ in Gujarat.
After protecting seven districts of Gujarat in 4 days, the yatra ended within the state and it’ll resume from Maharashtra’s Nandurbar district on Tuesday after a one-day pause, senior chief Jairam Ramesh advised reporters right here.
‘भारत जोड़ो न्याय यात्रा’ का 11 मार्च को विश्राम रहेगा।12 मार्च को दोपहर 2 बजे से यात्रा फिर शुरू होगी। उस दिन एक आदिवासी सम्मलेन होगा और फिर 13 मार्च को धुले में एक महिला अधिवेशन होगा।
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Gandhi visited the Swaraj Ashram at Bardoli in Surat district and supplied tributes to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
“For a few minutes, he went to the Swaraj Nivas which was set up by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in 1922. It was a moment of inspiration for the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra amid injustice being meted out to farmers from different states gathered at Delhi-Haryana border,” Ramesh mentioned.
Gandhi later left for New Delhi from Vyara in Tapi district after finishing the Gujarat leg of the yatra, a mass outreach programme forward of the Lok Sabha polls, protecting greater than 400 kilometres in 4 days throughout seven districts of the state.
The Swaraj Ashram was constructed by Sardar Patel as his residence and served as a centre for planning and executing the Bardoli Satyagrah — a farmers’ agitation and nationalist motion towards elevated taxation of cultivators by the then British colonial authorities.
Mahatma Gandhi additionally stayed on the ashram briefly in 1936 and 1941.
“Tomorrow is the day of rest (for the yatra participants). It will resume at 2 pm on March 12 from Nandurbar district of Maharashtra where a tribal sammelan is organised,” Ramesh mentioned.
On March 13, Gandhi and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will deal with a gathering of tribal ladies in Dhule the place they’ll announce the occasion’s assure on justice for ladies, he mentioned.
On the Trinamool Congress (TMC) saying its listing of candidates from West Bengal for the Lok Sabha polls with out arriving at a seat-sharing association with the Congress, Ramesh mentioned his occasion wished to have a seat-sharing system nevertheless it ought to be respectable and never one-sided.
“It is a matter of regret that we could not reach a seat-sharing formula. Any such formula cannot be one-sided but should be arrived at after talking honestly and with a big heart,” he mentioned.
The system ought to be primarily based on mutual understanding, the Congress chief mentioned.
“I cannot say whether it is a final decision on the TMC’s part, but the Congress is ready till the last moment for arriving at an understanding. But it should be respectable, and not one-sided,” he mentioned.
On the members of the family of late Congress chief Ahmed Patel being upset on the Bharuch Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat going to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) beneath a seat-sharing settlement, Ramesh mentioned Mumtaz Patel and Faisal Patel (Ahmed Patel’s daughter and son) have expressed their unhappiness however they very a lot stay part of the Congress.
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First Published: Mar 10 2024 | 4:26 PM IST
