4/13/2023 0 Comments Freezer containers![]() We need two acres to accommodate these containers. “these containers move to the next locations. It is like what you would expect while travelling in a second AC rail compartment, he said. The containers are not Made in China, he added. It is not a Toyota yatra’ or an Innova yatra’. “I wish both Amit Shah and Amit Malviya see these containers and then they will know what it is to live in a container. This is “very basic” and “very minimal”, Ramesh said. Look at the way we are staying, it would take about 160 days (to complete the Yatra),” he said. We are not hiding anything, there is complete transparency. “They should come and see what the reality is. ![]() The BJP is making these allegations in its nervousness, he claimed. “The allegations that have been made by the BJP IT cell with the encouragement of the prime minister (Narendra Modi) to defame the “Bharat Jodo Yatra” show that the BJP is rattled,” Ramesh said. Hitting out at the BJP, Ramesh said they only have “propaganda” to peddle. There is an area for having meals at the campsite and a conference room container which can accommodate 10 people, Ramesh said. He said his container has two bunks and is like a second AC train compartment. There is a two-bed container which Mr Digvijaya Singh, Mr K C Venugopal and I use, there is a four-bed, six-bed, eight-bed and 12-bed containers,” Ramesh told reporters. There is a one-bed container which Mr Rahul Gandhi uses. These containers move from one site to another. The site visited by the media was Scott Christian College, Nagercoil, where the yatris spent Thursday night. Mobile toilets and showers, mounted on trucks, are also parked at the campsites. While some have attached toilets, others do not. There are also four-bed, six-bed, eight-bed and 12-bed containers. Leaders such as Congress general secretaries K C Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh and Digvijaya Singh are staying in two-bed containers. About 230 people, including 119 “Bharat Yatris” who will walk the full 3,570 km from Kanyakumari to Kashmir will spend their nights in 60 containers mounted on trucks that will be moved daily from one place to another. The attack by the Opposition party came after it gave access to the media to its campsite in Nagercoil where the 60 containers were parked. Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh also took a dig at the BJP, saying this is not like the 1990 “Rath Yatra” a “Toyota yatra” or an “Innova yatra”, ours is a padyatra. The Opposition party alleged that the BJP IT cell was spreading falsehoods about the facilities at its yatra campsites and in containers. The Congress said its “Bharat Yatris” were staying in containers which have very “basic and minimal” facilities, and claimed that the BJP was trying to “defame” its “Bharat Jodo Yatra” as it was rattled by it. ![]() General camp guidelines put up in various containers state that consumption of liquor, tobacco and smoking is prohibited. There is also a pink zone for women yatris, with attached bathrooms. The red and orange zone containers house bunk beds and a train compartment like feel. The containers marked with blue have two beds each, with a washroom. Those marked yellow are single-bed containers. The containers are colour-coded according to their occupant capacity. A pictorial representation of one of Mahatma Gandhi’s marches with his quote, “Be the change that you wish to see in the world”, is also put up in the former Congress chief’s container. Rahul Gandhi is staying in a one-bed container that has a small sofa, an air conditioner, a small refrigerator and an attached toilet. Sixty truck-mounted containers with colour-coded occupant capacity, a 10-seater conference facility, mobile toilets and a dining area are some of the features of a “Bharat Jodo Yatra” campsite that moves daily to a new location.
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