It is easy to grab Mahatma Gandhi’s legacy, but difficult to follow in his footsteps: Rahul Gandhi

File photo of Rahul Gandhi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi on his birth anniversary and said it is easy for those in power to grab the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, but difficult to follow in his footsteps. The ideology that killed Mahatma Gandhi has eroded inequality, division and hard-earned freedom in the past eight years, Rahul said after visiting a Khadi Village Industries Center here. It is noteworthy that Mahatma Gandhi visited this center in 1927 and 1932.

During this, Rahul Gandhi also attended a prayer meeting and interacted with women weavers at the Khadi Village Industries Center. Later he went to Badanvalu village near Mysore and apart from doing Shramdaan, he interacted with the villagers. He also filled colors in the tricolor (national flag) along with the children of the village. The former Congress president said in a statement, “We remember and pay tribute to the great son of India. This remembrance of us has made it more touching that we are on the 25th day of the India Jodo Yatra. Such a padyatra in which we are walking on the path of his non-violence, solidarity, equality and justice.

Gandhiji fought the British Raj

He said, the way Gandhiji fought the British Raj, similarly we have started fighting the ideology that killed Gandhi. This ideology has eroded inequality, division and hard-earned freedom in the last eight years. Against this politics of violence and untruth, Bharat Jodo Yatra will spread the message of non-violence and Swaraj from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. He said that Swaraj has different meanings. It is the constitutional freedom of our states and the freedom of our villages to function under the Panchayati Raj system, he said.

Rahul Gandhi has covered 3,600 kms of padyatra

Rahul Gandhi said that it is a victory of its own whether it is India’s traveler who is doing 3,600 km padyatra or lakhs of citizens who are walking with us for a short time. He said that the Congress’s yatra is a calm and firm voice of the Indian people against the politics of fear, hatred and division. It is easy for those in power to grab Gandhi’s legacy but it is much more difficult to follow in his footsteps, he said.

Rahul Gandhi reached Gundlupet in Karnataka on 30 September

The Wayanad (Kerala) MP said that so far a large number of men, women and children have participated in the Bharat Jodo Yatra and many of them feel that their constitutional rights and values ​​are under threat today, for which Mahatma Gandhi had dedicated his life. As we continue our journey from Mysore to Kashmir, I request our citizens of India to join us in a spirit of non-violence and goodwill, he said. Rahul Gandhi had reached Gundlupet in Karnataka on 30 September from Gudalur in Tamil Nadu. He will travel 511 km in Karnataka in the next 21 days. The Yatra started from Kanyakumari on 7th September and will reach Jammu on 30th January 2023.