Rahul Gandhi leads foot march on 150th Gandhi Jayanti

Mumbai: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday led a foot march to mark the start of Mahatma Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary celebrations and to give a message against what the party called the “atmosphere of fear” in the country.

Congress leaders, K.C. Venugopal, R.P.N. Singh, state unit president Ashok Chavan, leader of Opposition in the Maharashtra Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil and others joined Rahul Gandhi as he began the march after garlanding a statue of the Father of the Nation near the district collector’s office in Wardha.

The march culminated at the Circus Ground (in Ramnagar locality), whe-re the Congress president was set to address a rally. Rahul Gandhi walked for around 50 minutes before reaching the rally venue, a Congress leader said.