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Walking the extra mile: When Rahul Gandhi should embark on BJY 2.0

Giving voice to the 'voiceless': From pressing the flesh to breaking bread, Rahul Gandhi's foot march - his team says - will be a shoo-in

Rahul Gandhi, Bharat Jodo Yatra
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The challenge for the Congress is how to sustain and scale up the ardour that the 135-day-long yatra stirred among karyakartas and the adulation it inspired for Rahul photo:pti

Archis Mohan
Even as the first anniversary of the Bharat Jodo Yatra (BJY), or Unite India March, draws near, the challenge for the Congress, especially for party leader Rahul Gandhi’s closest aides, is how to sustain and scale up the ardour that the 135-day-long yatra stirred among workers and the adulation it inspired among people across the country for Rahul.

The team is on the horns of a dilemma — not if but when Rahul should embark on BJY 2.0. Should he begin the yatra from Gujarat’s Porbandar, the birthplace of the Mahatma, on October 2 and skip campaigning for the five