Gandhi, who is leading the Yatra from Manipur to Mumbai, added, “Our job in this march is to open ‘mohabat ki dukan’ in ‘nafrat ka bazar’. We work to unite people.”‘We are not scared of them’On the BJP workers disrupting the yatra, Gandhi said they don’t try to attack and even if they do, it does not affect him.”I don’t get scared of these things. I don’t get intimidated. Abuse me, disturb me, or target me, I don’t get intimidated. I fight for my truth and even if the whole world stands on the other side, it does not matter to me. Once I make up my mind and fight for my ideology, I do not get intimidated,” the former Congress chief asserted.The Congress is benefiting from what the Assam Chief Minister and the Union Home Minister are doing and the yatra has become the main issue in Assam, Gandhi said.”As far as stopping me from visiting a temple, university and also preventing the ‘padyatra’ here is concerned, it is their style, it is part of intimidation tactics; we don’t get intimidated by these people, we are not scared of them,” the Congress leader said.Elaborating on BJP workers lining up to protest against the yatra, Gandhi claimed that they were holding party flags in one hand and with the other they were waving at him.”What kind of protest is this? Mr Himanta thinks it is a protest, it is no protest that is taking place, they are lining up to shout slogans, we are perfectly happy for them to line up there,” he said.Gandhi said, “There is a clear problem in the state…The chief minister of the state is one of the most corrupt chief ministers in the country.Wherever I move in the state, people tell me — that there is massive unemployment, massive corruption, massive price rise, farmers are struggling and no youth can get a job in this state. These are the issues we are raising.”He said the yatra is about five pillars of justice that will give strength to the country — participation, justice for youth, labourers, women and farmers.
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