Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra will be arriving in Siliguri tomorrow afternoon. Congress leaders with the help of the police have taken all necessary arrangements and measures to make it successful. ‘
Congress workers here have decorated the entire Siliguri town with party flags and setting up cut outs of Rahul Gandhi on either side of the roads. It may be noted that Mr Gandhi suddenly had left for Delhi from Cooch Behar on Saturday. He will return tomorrow to resume the Yatra from Falakata in Alipurduar.
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The Yatra will cover a few important locations in Jalpaiguri. According to a senior Congress leader, Rahul Gandhi may walk 1.4km in Jalpaiguri town. Tentatively Mr Gandhi would leave for Siliguri around 12pm from there via Raninagar and Falakata.
The Congress leadership here has planned to receive the yatra from Jalpai More and then will move towards Hasmi Chowk, popularly known as Venus More via Siliguri police station. The Congress leadership will request Mr Gandhi to walk from Venus More to Air View More, a few kilometres on Hill Cart Road, in the heart of Siliguri town. The BJNY will depart for Bagdogra and then leave for Sonapur in North Dinajpur, where Mr Gandhi will stay at night