Kota was all geared up to welcome the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra with the entire city being decked up with party posters, flags and hoardings, its roads spruced up and roadside walls freshly painted.
But Congress workers in the city, known for its coaching centres, are now a dejected lot with a last-minute change in the yatra route.
On Thursday, the yatra was scheduled to pass through the city, and Gandhi and other marchers were to halt in Ummed Singh Stadium in Nayapura for a lunch break. But the route has now been modified.
According to the amended schedule, the yatra will resume from Hanuman Temple in Jagpura at 6 am on Thursday and will proceed 24 km through the Rangpura road to Gudli railway station in Bundi, where it is scheduled to make a night halt.
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On the change in route, the state coordinator of the yatra Kapli Yadav said many decisions are taken based on time and circumstances.
The yatra, which has so far covered over 2,400 km since it started on September 7 from Tamil Nadu's Kanyakumari, completed its 91st day on Wednesday.
It will conclude in Jammu and Kashmir in early February 2023, covering 3,570 kilometres in 150 days.
The yatra has been started to raise voices against problems such as inflation, and unemployment and to highlight social polarisation, economic inequality, and political centralisation, the party has said.
