Holding banners against "rising" unemployment and communal divide in society, a group of youths met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday and j🃏oined him in the Bharat Jodo Yatra which, the party said, seeks to highlight their issues.
Bꦐharat Jodo Yatra: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi appealed to the youth to join the yatra to spread the message of peace and brotherhood and unite India.
Holding banners against "rising" unemployment and communal divide in society, a group of youths met Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday and j🃏oined him in the Bharat Jodo Yatra which, the party said, seeks to highlight their issues.
On the 32nd day of the yatra that started 🍎on September 7, Gandhi said some political parties were trying to spread hatred in the country by misleading youngsters.
The former Congress president, who was accompanied by senior leader Siddaramaiah and Karnataka PCC president D K Shivakumar, interacted with many people, including ꦛchildren, women and a local singer, during his 20-km yatra on Sunday.
He appealed to the youth to join the yatra to spread the message of peace a🧸nd brotherhood and unite India.
Sharing a picture of his interaction, Gandhi said these youths are saying that there is no room for hate in our beloved✨ India.
"Why are the people of thꦡe country raising their voices against hatred? Y👍ou all know it," he said.
The former Congr🔴ess ch൩ief said a few years ago, the country did not have such an atmosphere as exists today.
"Earli൲er there was broth𝓡erhood, there was mutual love, but today it is not like this. And this is a big reason for the 'Bharat Jodo Yatra," he said in a Facebook post in Hindi.
Noting that the youth are the future of o😼ur country, he said, "They don't want hate, they want love, they want employment so that they can make the future of themselves,꧒ their family and country."
"Some political parties are misleadingཧ these youth, keeping them unemployed, for doing their hate politics," he said.
"We have to save the youth from going astray, create a better tomorrow for them, organiℱse good education and employment," he said.
Gandhi said the Bharat Jo💮do Yatra is getting great support from the youth. "They are openly talking to me and I am listening to them. Our youth are so talented. Throwing them in the fire of hatred will destroy the future of the country.༒"
Gandhi said people of ev🅠ery religion and every caste are walking toge🃏ther in the yatra, hand in hand, without asking each other's names.
If some🍌one i𒐪s left behind, people stop for him, if someone falls, people support him and pick him up, he noted.
"The beauty of this journey is its unity and integrity. Our India was like this before and we have to make that beautiful Indi🔴a again.
"We are all moving forward with the message of peace and people are continuing to join us. Come, let's raise the voice of these youth and unite Indꦺia together," G🍃andhi said.
(With PTI inputs)