Thread by @KumudShankar

#BharatJodoYatra has been a personal walk of discovery for Rahul Gandhi as much as it has been a wake-up call to the last cadre of the Congress. Whether RG has been able to shed the Pappu-tag that was thrusted upon him by the promotions hunters at BJP can still be debated yet 1/n

a new Rahul Gandhi has emerged. He was always a fearless man, a principled one. Now we see a man whose discipline is phenomenal & whose energy level can electrify an entire village. Wakes up every day at 4am, begins his walk at sharp 6am, walks 24km daily, has covered 2800km 2/n

in a walk that he set foot 100 days back from far south now it marches near the India Gate. If you still call him Pappu, you do it at your own peril. Because the dishevelled man is nonchalant in his stride, held back in his words & steadfast on his feet. 3/n

Rahul Gandhi is discovering India. India is experiencing Rahul Gandhi. At some point in the early millennium, it seemed a match made by destiny & dynasty. Thankfully, that changed, the congress party was swallowed & humbled by its pride & Rahul went into a wilderness 4/n

All went good - Modi, the pied-piper swooned us to his tunes. Rahul & his party lost & lost. BJY has not made congress win, far from it. BJY has retaught Congress to fight back. & that should worry Modi & his midas army. They may twist history but they know history. 5/n

& what they know of a fighting Congress is that it is the greatest force in the world. It stood against the British & it shook colonialism globally. At a time, when they swore allegiances to His Majesty. When the congress fights, it wins, eventually. 6/n

No police, no jails, no propaganda can stop it. & with #BharatJodoYatra, the Congress fight for India has begun. The man leading the fight is a man whom India saw, waited for, judged & dismissed the day he set fire to his father's funeral pyre. Rahul is finding his purpose 7/n

His purpose can very well be the end of BJP & its fanaticism rather than the PM's chair. He is walking the Gandhi walk, he is not the man for the chair. #BJY is still not definitive, there is the lack of focus, there are the faux pas. But he is undeterred, he is learning 8/n

& he is smiling as he walks. RG is a man of privileges. He is used to them even he is not aware of them. Rahul needs to become more aware in a world over-flowing with unmitigated information. If Modi's gorilla thumps can make the world mad, Rahul's smile can disarm all hate 9/n

Miles to go before he stops, hope this is not the last of his walks. BJY can be a most defining walk for the nation, which may never find a chapter in history books. Love conquers Hate, Satyamev Jayate - Congress & Gandhi have done it before. With BJY, they'll encore! 10/10