the It's now been 60 days and they have roughly reached the halfway mark of the 1500 kilometre. Ya tra, from Kanye Kumari to Kashmir, has got a time as any to examine the ground reality of the claims being made by the Congress. Is this a resurrection of bland and India's elite? And also to lift the and take you behind the scenes of how a Ya tra like this is organised? How are these crowds being mobilised? How are all those videos being generated that is flooding social media? It's the anatomy and the ground focus of this ya tra that will bring out on on the road to the bar a euro ya tra at the break of dawn, start time every day six am The first thing one sees as Jairam Ramesh and Digvijay a sing the advance guard of the then marching bands. Then schoolgirls rehearsing the traditional Maharashtra dance of busy um in the crowds and then Rahul Gandhi A sense of what it is like for a journalist to cover the bar a Joe Ya Tra We are now going to be inside what has gone that be and now how it is working for the media to cover the UC Rahul Gandhi there behind you. But we have to keep this kind of distance with the volunteers, telling us constantly that we have to keep moving. And this the design of this is as follows that Jandi keep walking on the site, hissed option, meet some of them in from two. But at the same time behind the Ya Tra are many others who are also following. And they, from time to time are brought to the front of the Ya Tra to walk alongside Rahul Gandhi. And that is what is yielding some of those photo op soc of Rahul Gandhi interacting with different individuals. Which is of course, maybe making for wonderful optics with the Congress raises the question as to what ya Tre is all about. Have hundreds of kilometres away, a crucial election and Gujarat is unfolding. But the Ya Tra route comes nowhere close to Gujarat. I am getting support from individuals that is much more powerful than 500,000 people. The congress has gone blue in the face saying this is not an election winning ya tra objective as I have stated again and again is to bring India together Objective. From my perspective, is not 24 election. I am see that India is being divided, Violence is being spread in our society and this is damaging for our country. Unlike other Padilla tras, which sometimes you the mix of driving and walking, Rahul Gandhi reportedly insisted that he will only walk the entire duration of this journey Now This means that they can only get to cover about an average of 20 kilometres a day in two sessions, 10 kilometres in the morning and 10 in the evening. This is slow going and it means, for example, that they will end up spending close to five days. Injustice One district. We are in Nandi once again to underscore the Congress's point that this is not just about narrow political goals but about lofty ideals. But isn't there a fundamental contradiction in the Ya tras goals? If the Congress aim is to unite India, then surely the gold should be too politically. Defeat the BJP which, as per the Congress, is dividing India. You are in a sense, talking of Bharat Joe. I put this to Digvijay Singh, the head of the Ya Tra committee. Your argument is that this rising sense of in fear in security divisions your allegation is because of the BJP. Then my question is, when the Congress is this is not election. Jeet Oh yeah, Tra, this is This is a bar at Georgia. Surely, then the answer is that you have to defeat the electorally to unite. Then how election? Once the message clothes and people come out to speak and come out and speak out and that the element of fear from their mind of persecution is removed. One. You don't think it's a massive deployment of energy and resources without a political goal. That's not a mistake. That you are a political party are not an NGO. Everything should not be seen to the lenses of politics after their national issues. Also, the national concern so hollow will be able to continue like this the way the constitution is being compromised, the way the bodies are being compromised, innocent people are being harassed and the movement they join be all day. So what is the Ya Tra? Achieving an image makeover for Rahul Gandhi claims decision about one leader. But as far as Rahul Zone images, concern and what this is doing to his image and how is perceived by people. What? What What is how? What do you see as the most significant outcome coming out of this year, he is proving everyone role is proving everyone wrong. In what sense kind of perception That will be okay. Salmon, who is not a serious politician as someone who is missing in action. Absolutely yes, will be one person who will do it. Do it, Mr Amit Shut. Do it for that. Any BJP leader do it either. Rahul Gandhi at Harare Congress. Yeah, it is a Congress party. Ya Tra, of which Rahul candy is a prominent phase is the main faces. Many visitors are there Every and all the posters, social media of you And it is not sec which is putting up this. This is the party the use local party Local party leaders are the claim that Rahul Gandhi is just one amongst many arteries. Of course not the case. He is front and centre in all the branding online and offline. One could see the Congress make an effort to rope in a kind of Noah's ark of social causes along the way. The A data and UEFA Here are a group of Congress student activists seeking justice for Rohit Djamila in Karnataka. Relatives of the slain journalist Gauri Long Kesh walked alongside Rahul Gandhi. Even former critics of the Congress have turned up set to be inspired by the message of But when we spoke to crowds lining the route more see the Ya Tra as a political event that will lead to the comeback of Rahul Gandhi. Ahah way way with a r a be a oppa Bilal, approach our car wreck It's Arsenal be Congress Nick Aguila, Joe Congress Niki Ally Way Batya Bebe Yeah, like our Rahul Gandhi could ignite making better. Wouldn't say Janicki Laki See better in a cockle sector job? Yep. Napa Agenda Ally Broken Copacabana Veteran Banana killer Organ Disney Ju Bharatiya Conga of a the No no, I have a the A barbeque. OK Oh, they can a partaking in a lotta Chandana Maharashtra in number Sharpay The last time a the lar lar put Moira way a fedora Massive Rahul Gandhi got our Yeah, like it challah Congress Party was at cannae Aurea Agnus Savidan Well, occasional holiday she, Fallon, Allah, A k Gandhi to say the the in Maidan Malik in back in time, Sarah Kay, Detainee Absent and Action City's media almost all of them. However, already Congress supporters got the big A pla gah a bit overkill would need get sub Congress supporter and but yea yea issued a 10 you Congress, it has a This kind of galvanising of the Congress is based is of course, important because party has been demoralised for a long time. But it's important to remember that if the game is to change halfs and minds, then the Congress needs to go beyond the faithful. The some fence sitters converting them into votes does require organisational strength. One looks grounds that have been mobilised if one looks at fly over, papered with posters of the Congress Party in the town of Nan, did shows you that the also a demonstration of Congress is spending something that is constantly underestimated. No better example of Congress's organisational skills than this Bharat Juro floating container city that we come across on the highway. Nandi give you a behind the scenes glimpse of how the bar a Joe Ya tra and how the Congress's organises Bara Yattara huge caravan of people that is moving across the country. Huge convoy of containers which are basically serving as mobile homes for the members of the Ya Tra, the leaders of the ah Tre as well as those who are regularly marching alongside it. So now we are inside the mini container floating township of the bar a Joe Ya Tra. This parking lot of a banquet space in Nanda has been turned into the resting place for these containers for the duration of this leg of the ya try. And what we're told by the Congress is that there are a total of 66 0 such containers which can house about 300 people were travelling all the time with the Ya Tra. This includes Rahul Gandhi, who stays in a container very much like this, as well as his aides, senior Congress leaders, some of the core ya tras members, yea trees as well as a floating ecosystem of people who have to keep this whole thing going, wrap it up every night and then shifted to the next location. And what we're told by the Congress is that these containers was specifically designed for this ya tra by a private vendor that they contracted and that to them this is something that hasn't been done before. That you have seen containers being used stationary as temporary housing on construction sites and one but to put so many containers on trucks and take it across the country for a political ya tra is perhaps something they say is being done for the very first time. We are now going to get a glimpse of inside one of these container quote and court homes way above from the Congress Media Department. Everybody just give a census how it's actually designed because there is a sense that is a high end luxury accommodation. So have whatever leaded ones containers with is where in new standing to container. Okay, where in two people share this container and one base Naga bed, and this has attached toilet and most containers have a little known. Most containers don't have a divided into three zones, right, which is a green zone and a pink and blue zone. OK, so the greens on ones are the ones were in most of the Bharatiya three stay. It has 12 beds any doesn't have a toilet and the toilets are outside. It's sharing toilets okay and four Bed It ones are where mostly the women yea tree state it has. Some of them have attached toilets. A few of them doesn't have so they have a separate section where in the common toilet is also parked nearby to the container. Even if they have to go in the middle of the night, they can use it. So the 12 bedded one is actually the typical where most year which let's go have a look at that laundry area one pair everyday located on the third day. Get on 30 were there so many people know Well bedded container give you the field and yea trees have space just the space to sleep. So this is 1234 holder for her for her and they have to use these railings to get up Yea trees in the age man of 50 also who have to somehow fit themselves Yes, yes, yes, It may not be VIP living, but this whole exercise above surely pulling this off does come with a high cost. Who is paying the bill? Police, The Congress Party is paying the bill for this. Okay, the the party is state for all of this. And what's the total bill for the whole thing? Even drug second A. Everything. It's an ongoing expense. The whole ya tras expands every day. A new village has to be set up every day. Diesel that needs to be taken with field. We're we're onto the number. There is a There's employees the team size that is managing this is 170. People who are doing this and again to campsites are set up in advance. So we don't have a number to give you right now because it's a growing number on the ground in the also get to see the Congress Media Parrot. It's that they put together cover the van, which is a uplink live unit which is continuously livestreaming ya tra onto the Congress's social media platforms. They also the ones that operate the troops that you'll see that have given the images that have become emblematic of the also part of the media potential of the Congress Party, which claims that this is a way to bypass effect that the mainstream media, for a large part, has ignored the Ya Tra and allows them to create their own narrative. Further boosted media presence the Congress has hired a Mumbai based production house called Seen Bandar, set to be behind much of the slickly produced videos flooding social media. One charge a shake. Don't be shy, brother Media management does mean that it is an easy for journalist to access. Rahul Gandhi give the order press conference once in a while difficulty that farmers are fishing but trying to interview him while along the yeah Tra, who is next to impossible. Rahul Gandhi is coming up. Let's see if we can try and speak to him so far is not really focused on media as such, but as he approaches, try look to see if you will, because the Congress has also managed to rope in key political allies like the Shiv Sena Zad, it and the NCP supreme truly, who first walked and then even appeared alongside Rahul Gandhi at a rally in Nandi Candy. Yata fixed the deeper structural problems of the Congress, which are spilling over into the Ya Tra like the worries over the exodus of leaders peak Nandi, the bastion of former chief Minister Ashok Chavan MLA from Nandi District and the host of this leg of the This is your area is what what all arrangements did you have to make for They are even nothing very special. We have accommodation which is normal Mongol aerial as we have marriage with special awarded his old camp here set up So the morning special award in the arrangements will be made. Chavan has spent a good part of his time fielding question on rumours that he's joining the BJP after he met Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Devendra Fad Novice, why's that this constant reports than that you are drifting towards rumours are rumours They have believed. But you did meet the vendor find Nevis. I meet himself. Several times have been meeting. Not only given referendum is I've been pretty much in there also We have been the cabinet as they represented to other people of this conspiracy. There were several used to meet me whenever you're with your with Congress fully definitely. What? You have any doubts about it now? No, no, no, no, No question of BJP, no question. You see, I'm here right in the midst of the PTA and moving on. Moreover, harder political realities are sinking in The Congress now, says Rahul Gandhi might take a break from the Yeah Tra to go to Gujarat campaign. All leaders are going for example, I I am going to Gujarat on 16th and 17, Okay, but the fact remains, Rahul is not going him or is. He may go, so he may. He may go. Okay, it's still open, but why not? A digital rally from very are in December, when the Gujarat Himachal results role in the Ya Tra would have entered the Hindi Heartland, where the Congress faces its steepest challenge. A poor performance may once again call into question Rahul's credentials as a serious leader. For now, Rahul seems unconcerned, walking, sometimes even running on the Ya Tra, the outcome of which remains uncertain.
