Jharkhand Congress president Rajesh Thakur earlier said that Gandhi had to leave for Delhi for a “special purpose”.The first leg of Gandhi’s yatra in Jharkhand took place in the first week of February. It had entered Jharkhand from West Bengal on February 2 and entered Odisha on February 6.Gandhi was scheduled to stay in Jharkhand for two days in the second leg, before entering Bihar on February 15.The ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’, which started in Manipur on January 14, is scheduled to cover 6,713 km in 67 days, passing through 110 districts in 15 states, before culminating in Mumbai on March 20.Agitating farmers from Punjab are planning to march to Delhi to press for various demands, including a law on a minimum support price for crops and loan waivers.
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