Sharmila’s record-breaking padayatra from today
The Hindu
Daily, she will walk for four hours in the morning and three in the evening
YSR Telangana party chief Sharmila will seek to break all records in padayatras by walking 4,000 km in 400 days when she sets on her second walkathon to mobilise public support for a welfare State through her nascent political party from Chevella on Wednesday.
She will look to better her own record of walking 3,112 km in 230 days through her `Maro Praja Prasthanam’ yatra in 2012-13 and that of her brother and Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy who created history with his 341-day Praja Sankalpa Yatra that covered 3,648 km and billed as the longest in the country.
The twin yatras by Ms. Sharmila and Mr. Jagan overshadowed their father Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy’s Praja Prasthanam of 1,500 km in the scorching summer of 2003 and Telugu Desam president N. Chandrababu Naidu’s 2,000 km yatra in 2012. An 11-day bus yatra by Ms. Sharmila in support of YSR Congress of Jagan prior to 2019 Assembly and Parliamentary elections in 2019 had also received good response.