Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the Congress, recently went to the Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib in Punjab on a Wednesday morning before the start of the ongoing “Bharat Jodo Yatra” in the region. The yatra will go through various areas of Punjab over the course of eight days before arriving in Jammu and Kashmir on January 19, where it will end.

Party members and residents gathered in great numbers to show their support for Rahul Gandhi despite the bitter cold and dense fog. As the yatra entered Punjab on Tuesday, the Congress leader paid a visit to the Sri Harmandir Sahib (Golden Temple) in Amritsar. On Tuesday, the former head of the Congress party resumed his yatra in Ambala, Haryana.

As women Bharat Yatris matched steps with the Congress leader on Monday, the yatra was devoted to women and women’s empowerment. The Wayanad MP made fun of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) at the Bharat Jodo Yatra’s Haryana leg, referring to them as the Kauravas of the 21st century who run shakhas, wear Khakhi half-pants, and work against the national culture.

“Kauravas of the 21st century wear Khakhi half-pants and run ‘shakhas’. Beside them, stand the country’s 2-3 richest people,” Gandhi said while addressing a gathering in Kurukshetra. “RSS members never chant Har Har Mahadev because Lord Shiva was a Tapasavi and these people are attacking India’s ‘Tapasya’. They have removed Goddess Sita from ‘Jai Siya Ram’. These people are working against India’s culture,” Rahul had mentioned.

On January 30, Rahul will hoist the Tricolor at Srinagar, where the yatra would come to an end after beginning on September 7 in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu. The foot march has so far travelled through Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and is currently in Haryana.