Facilities at campsites, containers ‘primary’; BJP making an attempt to ‘defame’ yatra, says Congress
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By PTI
KANYAKUMARI: Sixty truck-mounted containers with colour-coded occupant capability, a 10-seater convention facility, cell bogs and a eating space are a few of the options of a “Bharat Jodo Yatra” campsite that strikes each day to a brand new location.
Rahul Gandhi is staying in a one-bed container with a small couch, an air conditioner, a small fridge and an hooked up bathroom.
A pictorial illustration of one among Mahatma Gandhi’s marches along with his quote, “Be the change that you wish to see in the world”, can be put up within the former Congress chief’s container.
The containers are colour-coded in keeping with their occupant capability. Those marked yellow are single-bed containers. The containers marked with blue have two beds every, with a washroom.
The purple and orange zone containers home bunk beds and a prepare compartment-like really feel. There can be a pink zone for girls yatris, with hooked up bogs.
General camp pointers put up in numerous containers state that consumption of liquor, tobacco and smoking is prohibited.
The Congress mentioned its “Bharat Yatris” have been staying in containers which have very “basic and minimal” services, and claimed that the BJP was making an attempt to “defame” its “Bharat Jodo Yatra” because it was rattled by it.
The Opposition get together alleged that the BJP IT cell was spreading falsehoods in regards to the services at its yatra campsites and in containers.
Congress normal secretary Jairam Ramesh additionally took a dig on the BJP, saying this isn’t just like the 1990 “Rath Yatra” a “Toyota yatra” or an “Innova yatra”, ours is a padyatra.
The assault by the Opposition get together got here after it gave entry to the media to its campsite in Nagercoil the place the 60 containers have been parked.
About 230 individuals, together with 119 “Bharat Yatris” who will stroll the complete 3,570 km from Kanyakumari to Kashmir will spend their nights in 60 containers mounted on vans that will likely be moved each day from one place to a different.
Leaders corresponding to Congress normal secretaries Okay C Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh and Digvijaya Singh are staying in two-bed containers. There are additionally four-bed, six-bed, eight-bed and 12-bed containers. While some have hooked up bogs, others don’t.
Mobile bogs and showers, mounted on vans, are additionally parked on the campsites. The website visited by the media was Scott Christian College, Nagercoil, the place the yatris spent Thursday night time.
“We have 60 containers here. These containers move from one site to another. There is a one-bed container which Mr Rahul Gandhi uses. There is a two-bed container which Mr Digvijaya Singh, Mr K C Venugopal and I use, there is a four-bed, six-bed, eight-bed and 12-bed containers,” Ramesh informed reporters.
He mentioned his container has two bunks and is sort of a second AC prepare compartment. There is an space for having meals on the campsite and a convention room container which might accommodate 10 individuals, Ramesh mentioned.
Hitting out on the BJP, Ramesh mentioned they solely have “propaganda” to hawk. “The allegations that have been made by the BJP IT cell with the encouragement of the prime minister (Narendra Modi) to defame the “Bharat Jodo Yatra” show that the BJP is rattled,” Ramesh mentioned.
The BJP is making these allegations in its nervousness, he claimed. “They should come and see what the reality is. We are not hiding anything, there is complete transparency. Look at the way we are staying, it would take about 160 days (to complete the Yatra),” he mentioned.
This is “very basic” and “very minimal”, Ramesh mentioned. “I wish both Amit Shah and Amit Malviya see these containers and then they will know what it is to live in a container. This is not like the Rath Yatra. It is not a ‘Toyota yatra’ or an ‘Innova yatra’. Ours is a padyatra,” Ramesh mentioned. The containers usually are not Made in China, he added.
“The facilities are very basic. It is like what you would expect while travelling in a second AC rail compartment,” he mentioned.
“By 8 am these containers move to the next locations. We need two acres to accommodate these containers. We end up setting up camps in schools and colleges,” he mentioned. He mentioned the camp websites are largely for the 119 ‘Bharat Yatris’, help employees and folks managing the camps.
Ramesh mentioned the meals for the yatris is being managed by the get together’s state models.
Rahul Gandhi, together with a number of of his get together colleagues, launched into the three,570-km “Bharat Jodo Yatra” from right here on Thursday.
Amid sounds of drum beats, a sea of Tricolours and slogans of “Bharat jodo”, the march started from Vivekananda College Road, Agasteeswaram, on Thursday.
The march would cowl 12 states and two Union Territories in about 5 months. The march is shifting in two batches from 7 am to 10.30 am and from 3.30 pm to six.30 pm.
While the morning session consists of fewer contributors, the night session sees mass mobilisation. The contributors plan to stroll round 22-23 km each day. About 30 per cent of “Bharat Yatris” are girls. The common age of “Bharat Yatris” is 38.
About 50,000 residents have additionally registered to take part within the yatra.
It will cross by way of Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Nilambur, Mysuru, Bellary, Raichur, Vikarabad, Nanded, Jalgaon, Indore, Kota, Dausa, Alwar, Bulandshahr, Delhi, Ambala, Pathankot, Jammu, and finish in Srinagar.
KANYAKUMARI: Sixty truck-mounted containers with colour-coded occupant capability, a 10-seater convention facility, cell bogs and a eating space are a few of the options of a “Bharat Jodo Yatra” campsite that strikes each day to a brand new location.
Rahul Gandhi is staying in a one-bed container with a small couch, an air conditioner, a small fridge and an hooked up bathroom.
A pictorial illustration of one among Mahatma Gandhi’s marches along with his quote, “Be the change that you wish to see in the world”, can be put up within the former Congress chief’s container.
The containers are colour-coded in keeping with their occupant capability. Those marked yellow are single-bed containers. The containers marked with blue have two beds every, with a washroom.
The purple and orange zone containers home bunk beds and a prepare compartment-like really feel. There can be a pink zone for girls yatris, with hooked up bogs.
General camp pointers put up in numerous containers state that consumption of liquor, tobacco and smoking is prohibited.
The Congress mentioned its “Bharat Yatris” have been staying in containers which have very “basic and minimal” services, and claimed that the BJP was making an attempt to “defame” its “Bharat Jodo Yatra” because it was rattled by it.
The Opposition get together alleged that the BJP IT cell was spreading falsehoods in regards to the services at its yatra campsites and in containers.
Congress normal secretary Jairam Ramesh additionally took a dig on the BJP, saying this isn’t just like the 1990 “Rath Yatra” a “Toyota yatra” or an “Innova yatra”, ours is a padyatra.
The assault by the Opposition get together got here after it gave entry to the media to its campsite in Nagercoil the place the 60 containers have been parked.
About 230 individuals, together with 119 “Bharat Yatris” who will stroll the complete 3,570 km from Kanyakumari to Kashmir will spend their nights in 60 containers mounted on vans that will likely be moved each day from one place to a different.
Leaders corresponding to Congress normal secretaries Okay C Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh and Digvijaya Singh are staying in two-bed containers. There are additionally four-bed, six-bed, eight-bed and 12-bed containers. While some have hooked up bogs, others don’t.
Mobile bogs and showers, mounted on vans, are additionally parked on the campsites. The website visited by the media was Scott Christian College, Nagercoil, the place the yatris spent Thursday night time.
“We have 60 containers here. These containers move from one site to another. There is a one-bed container which Mr Rahul Gandhi uses. There is a two-bed container which Mr Digvijaya Singh, Mr K C Venugopal and I use, there is a four-bed, six-bed, eight-bed and 12-bed containers,” Ramesh informed reporters.
He mentioned his container has two bunks and is sort of a second AC prepare compartment. There is an space for having meals on the campsite and a convention room container which might accommodate 10 individuals, Ramesh mentioned.
Hitting out on the BJP, Ramesh mentioned they solely have “propaganda” to hawk. “The allegations that have been made by the BJP IT cell with the encouragement of the prime minister (Narendra Modi) to defame the “Bharat Jodo Yatra” show that the BJP is rattled,” Ramesh mentioned.
The BJP is making these allegations in its nervousness, he claimed. “They should come and see what the reality is. We are not hiding anything, there is complete transparency. Look at the way we are staying, it would take about 160 days (to complete the Yatra),” he mentioned.
This is “very basic” and “very minimal”, Ramesh mentioned. “I wish both Amit Shah and Amit Malviya see these containers and then they will know what it is to live in a container. This is not like the Rath Yatra. It is not a ‘Toyota yatra’ or an ‘Innova yatra’. Ours is a padyatra,” Ramesh mentioned. The containers usually are not Made in China, he added.
“The facilities are very basic. It is like what you would expect while travelling in a second AC rail compartment,” he mentioned.
“By 8 am these containers move to the next locations. We need two acres to accommodate these containers. We end up setting up camps in schools and colleges,” he mentioned. He mentioned the camp websites are largely for the 119 ‘Bharat Yatris’, help employees and folks managing the camps.
Ramesh mentioned the meals for the yatris is being managed by the get together’s state models.
Rahul Gandhi, together with a number of of his get together colleagues, launched into the three,570-km “Bharat Jodo Yatra” from right here on Thursday.
Amid sounds of drum beats, a sea of Tricolours and slogans of “Bharat jodo”, the march started from Vivekananda College Road, Agasteeswaram, on Thursday.
The march would cowl 12 states and two Union Territories in about 5 months. The march is shifting in two batches from 7 am to 10.30 am and from 3.30 pm to six.30 pm.
While the morning session consists of fewer contributors, the night session sees mass mobilisation. The contributors plan to stroll round 22-23 km each day. About 30 per cent of “Bharat Yatris” are girls. The common age of “Bharat Yatris” is 38.
About 50,000 residents have additionally registered to take part within the yatra.
It will cross by way of Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Nilambur, Mysuru, Bellary, Raichur, Vikarabad, Nanded, Jalgaon, Indore, Kota, Dausa, Alwar, Bulandshahr, Delhi, Ambala, Pathankot, Jammu, and finish in Srinagar.
