For BJP, Covid is where Bharat Jodo Yatra is: Rahul Gandhi

Mounting his attack on the BJP Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the ruling party can hold as many public meetings as it wants in the rest of India but sees Covid only where his Bharat Jodo Yatra is passing throughHis fresh attack came a day after he said the government is coming up with excuses to stop the KanyakumaritoKashmir yatra which is currently in Haryana and will enter the national capital on SaturdayNow the Union health minister is writing me letter that Covid has come back stop the yatra In the rest of India BJP can hold as many public meetings as they want but where Bharat Jodo Yatra is going on there is Corona and Covid Gandhi said addressing a public meeting here Friday eveningSenior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh addressing a news conference here earlier in the day accused the government of orchestrating the Covid drama to defame and derail the Bharat Jodo Yatra and said his party would follow any protocol based on scientific advice that would be uniformly implementedAlso Read Im opening shop of love in their market of hatred Rahul GandhiEarlier this week Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya wrote to Gandhi requesting him to consider suspending the march if Covid protocols could not be followedAddressing the gathering here Gandhi lashed out at the BJP and said a select few are spreading hate and they want farmers and the youth to have fear in their hearts so they can convert it into hatredBut Indias common people including farmers and the youth are speaking the language of love walking together and moving handinhand he saidThe previous UPA governments policies were propeople and propoor but the BJP dispensations polices such as demonetisation and wrong GST spread fear he saidThe Bharat Jodo Yatra is against unemployment inflation and fear and hatred he saidThe KanyakumaritoKashmir yatra a mass contact initiative of the Congress which started on September 7 has so far covered Tamil Nadu Kerala Andhra Pradesh Karnataka Telangana Maharashtra Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan and is currently passing through HaryanaGandhi referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modis slogan of Congressmukt Bharat in the runup to the 2014 and 2019 parliamentary polls and said Congress is not an organisation not a political outfit but a way of thinking and a way of living On one hand is RSS and BJP and on the other hand Congress party These are two ways of thinking and livingBJP and RSS nafrat ki bazaar Congress mohabbat ki dukan ussi nafrat ke bazaar mein Gandhi said reiterating that he is opening a shop of love in the market of hateHatred violence and fear which RSS and BJP spread Narendra Modi understood this but he could not understand Congress party Congress ideology because no one can wipe out love from this country Gandhi saidDont think the fight is between Congress and BJP he told the gathering and added this fight has been going on for thousands of yearsThey spread hatred we spread love They spread violence we counter with nonviolence They are scared we are not This is the difference he saidFor seven to eight years Modi ji has used thousands of crores of rupees to defame me and the Congress I did not speak a word Whatever lies he spoke about me I did not speak a word and I remained silent I never tried to protect myself he saidThen referring to his yatra which he said has drawn overwhelming public support Gandhi said But in one month I blew their thousands of crores of rupees Entire country saw this man Rahul has only love for his nation farmers labourersThey BJPRSS did the job of dividing India and spreading hatred Before starting from Kanyakumari I thought hatred is there in entire country I was scared But when I started I came to know one thing there is no hatred only love he saidThere is India in this yatra there is love and we will unfurl the tricolour in Srinagar when the yatra reaches there said GandhiSenior Congress leaders from the state including former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda Randeep Singh Surjewala and Kumari Selja were present in the meetingThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever