Letter to BS: Why none of our leaders come up with Rozi Roti Yatra yet?

With electronic media in tow, what we see nowadays can be called a yatra in a vanity van to garner votes

This refers to “Raje’s Rath”(August 6).  People of India have seen many yatras  from the days when the former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N T Rama Rao went on Chaitanya Yatra after forming the Telugu Desam Party in a bid to oust the Congress. Unlike NTR who boarded the famous Chaitanya Ratham, a Cheverlot van with bare minimum facility (as he was not keen to put too much money on his untested political journey), the former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar went on a Padayatra from Kanyakumati to Kashmir covering a few kilometres every day. Since then, we have seen countless