India’s main opposition Congress party ended a five-month cross-country “unity march” in disputed Kashmir on Monday with hundreds of members of various opposition groups joining in a public rally in freezing temperatures.
The march led by Rahul Gandhi, an opposition leader and scion of the influential Gandhi family, sought to challenge what the Congress party says is a “hate-filled” version of the country under the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party.
Dressed in a traditional Kashmiri tunic worn during the winter, Gandhi, 52, and other leaders stood on an open podium inside a cricket stadium. Gandhi began the “Bharat Jodo Yatra” or “Unite India March” in Kanyakumari, a coastal town at the southernmost tip of India, on Sept. 7. The march, which was live-streamed on a website, covered 3,570 kilometers and crossed 12 states before finishing in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
Modi’s party dismissed Gandhi’s march and speeches as a political gimmick to regain his “lost credibility.” In Srinagar, Gandhi told reporters that Modi “is almost frankly the only person in the country who is under the impression that the Chinese have not taken any land from India.”
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