Thread by @GastroOneIndia

#BharatJodaYatra
The walk that is creating waves in the country but which is being kept under wraps by the mainstream media....

"Bharat Jodo yatra

When the Yatra started, most of us had little idea about what it was other than the objectives that the media cooked up.

From being a politically motivated move to Rahul Gandhi's rebranding, a lot was fed to us. Only those who were participating in it had some idea about how to articulate it's objectives.

But as time has passed, as people have joined in their lakhs, one needs to sit back and interpret the many dimensions that it has grown into.

From reminding India it's essential secular and democratic culture to bringing people together, from igniting Congress supporters to gaining appreciation from its sceptics to opponents, from being a physical exercise to now a spiritual revolution it has achieved so much that I…

…could write a whole thesis on it.

One couldn't walk 3500+ kilometres, with just political ambition, it would be pretty obvious as we could see in the copycat Yatras of other parties. One couldn't do it either, if it was to show physical fitness.

One couldn't do it to change the minds of people. Rahul Gandhi increasingly seems like he is doing it, because he wants to unite people.

Unite people by empathic listening, by absorbing the challenges that people feel living in an increasingly hopeless, insecure situation, by becoming one with India.

Contrary to popular opinion, i feel that by ignoring the Yatra, the Godi media and ruling powers, it has added to the credibility of the Yatra. You can feel it in the confidence with which Congress leaders now shun the mainstream media, in their criticism of the media.

It is their desire that disown, discredit and distract people with malignant campaigns about shoes, shirts, undergarments and anything possible, that fascists have surrendered to it.

From the initial impression of yatra for congress, the Yatra now stands for all the ills that have befallen the country. It has become a wholesome expression of how India is feeling.

You can see it very clearly specifically through the things that people associate the Yatra with now.

It represents the unemployed, the poor, the minorities, the weak, women, children, students, youth, the fight against hate, division and discrimination, a revival of unity, alongside total upgrade in Rahul Gandhi himself, the Yatra has delivered so much more.

The meaning and the essence of the Yatra, and the resulting objectives have only just been acknowledged and understood in nuance by leading thinkers of India. In times to come, the real deliverables of yatra will be far bigger, far reaching and impactful.

I say this because India as a whole has just about started paying it proper attention and giving it's due. In time, the wholesome outcome of this yatra will surprise even the congress.

You can see the result of it in the ideological discourse that Rahul and his team present in the press briefings. For the rest of us, we will wait for the good ones, to completely study and unravel the many dimensions that this yatra had grown into. "