Rahul Gandhi Nearly Quit Bharat Jodo Yatra Over Knee Pain: Congress Leader
Praising Rahul Gandhi's determination, Congress general secretary KC Venugopal on Saturday said during the initial days of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, there was a delicate situation in which the former Congress chief faced severe knee problems that forced him to think about whether he should be replaced by someone else. Mr Venugopal, a close confidante of Mr Gandhi, said the predicament had even forced Priyanka Gandhi to tell him that her brother might be giving up the nationwide foot march due to the severe pain and hand over the baton of the yatra to senior Congress leaders. "His knee pain had aggravated when the yatra entered Kerala on the third day of its commencement from Kanyakumari. One night, he called me to tell (me) about the severity of his knee pain and suggested carrying out the campaign by replacing him with any another leader," the senior Congress leader said during a function organised at Kerala Congress headquarters in the evening to honour the Bharat Jodo y...