"How To Participate...": Sonia Gandhi Jokes About Congress Footmarch
NDTV
Sonia Gandhi said, "All of us will participate in it (the footmarch). Seniors will have to find ways to accommodate seniors like me in this... on how to easily participate in yatra without running out of breath".
Congress's Sonia Gandhi, announcing the party's huge public outreach initiative today, tossed a small 'challenge' at its "seniors". The party has planned a massive Kashmir to Kanyakumari "Bharat Jodo Yatra" starting on Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary on October 2.
"All of us will participate in it. The Yatra is to strengthen the bonds of social harmony that are under stress, to preserve the foundational values of our Constitution that are under assault and to highlight the day-to-day concerns of crores of our people," she said on the concluding day of the three-day Chintan Shivir.
Then, in a self -deprecating joke, Mrs Gandhi added, "All of us will participate in it (the footmarch). Seniors will have to find ways to accommodate seniors like me in this... on how to easily participate in yatra without running out of breath".
Loud cheers and laughter greeted the remark of the 75-year-old, who has not been in good health for some time and has made few public appearances.
