The Congress Bharat Jodo Yatra is utilizing 60 such containers.
New Delhi:
Among some 230 individuals a part of the Congress’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, senior celebration chief Rahul Gandhi is spending his nights on in one of many 60 containers mounted on vans which can be being moved day by day from one place to a different.
While the 52-year-old MP has one of many air-conditioned containers to himself, others will probably be sharing. Senior leaders are housed in two-bedded containers and others yatris in six or 12-bedded ones. Not all containers have ACs, however most have hooked up bathrooms.
The containers are being moved on vans together with the march.
Party chief Jairam Ramesh has informed reporters that the containers, which will probably be stationed each evening at momentary campsites of about two acres, do not have provisions for meals or conferences. There is not any TV inside, there’s a fan, he mentioned.
There are 119 “Bharat Yatris”, together with Rahul Gandhi, who will stroll all the distance of three,570 km, from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, together with some “Atithi Yatris”, will probably be staying within the containers, Mr Ramesh mentioned.
Rahul Gandhi is amongst some 230 people who find themselves a part of the march.
“We are staying in the containers since yesterday. There are 60 containers in which about 230 people stay. Every day the containers will move to a new site mounted on trucks. Some are one-bed, some two-bed, some four-bed and some 12-bed containers,” Mr Ramesh mentioned.
Rahul Gandhi can also be staying within the container since Wednesday evening, he mentioned. On the primary day of the march on Thursday, the yatris lined some 23 km with one break.
Some of the containers have air conditioners.
Party chief Digvijaya Singh, who’s the chief of the Bharat Jodo Yatra organising panel, mentioned the containers are like railway sleeper compartments.
According to Mr Ramesh, the containers are mounted on Tata vans which can be from Mumbai. They are from a personal firm.
Digvijaya Singh additionally mentioned it has been determined that from locations the place the yatra will not be passing, water and soil will probably be introduced and 5-10 saplings will probably be planted by Rahul Gandhi at varied locations the place the yatra halts.
The “Bharat Yatris” have additionally been issued customary khadi luggage, which have a water bottle, an umbrella and a pair of T-shirts.
The march will cowl 12 states and two union territories in 150 days.
