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Ragpicker Engages Rahul Gandhi in Conversation During Yatra

Ragpicker Engages Rahul Gandhi in Conversation During Yatra

 Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the Congress, spoke with a woman ragpicker as his Bharat Jodo Yatra passed through a town in Madhya Pradesh's Khargone district on Saturday. She shared with him the difficulties she and her family were experiencing, including the lack of basic services like electricity and water.

On Saturday, the Mr. Gandhi-led foot march's Madhya Pradesh leg entered its fourth day.

The yatra started in the morning from Mortakka in the Khandwa district after stopping overnight. Mr. Gandhi encountered 45-year-old ragpicker Shannu and her family members while they were part of the crowd gathered by the roadside in Barwaha, Khargone.

She explained to Gandhi during their conversation that she and her family were destitute and relied on rag-picking to make a living at various locations.

The woman and her family said that no one was listening to them.

She remarked, "My kids can't even go to school."

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the Congress general secretary in charge of Uttar Pradesh, joined the yatra for the third day in a row along with her husband Robert and son Raihan.

This evening, the yatra will arrive in Mhow, the town where Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar was born.

Gandhi and party leader Mallikarjun Kharge will speak at a public gathering in Mhow on Saturday to commemorate Constitution Day, according to a Congress leader.

The memorial established at the site of Dr. Ambedkar's birth will also receive tribute from both leaders. Beginning in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, on September 7, the Gandhi-led yatra entered Madhya Pradesh, which is governed by the Bharatiya Janata Party, on November 23 in the Burhanpur district from neighboring Maharashtra.

According to the Congress's schedule, the yatra will travel 380 km through western Madhya Pradesh's Malwa-Nimar region in 12 days before crossing into Rajasthan on December 4.


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