LUCKNOW: The Congress' Bharat Jodo Yatra on Tuesday, January 3, resumed its second leg of the journey from New Delhi after a 9-day year-end break. 

The Yatra led by former party chief Rahul Gandhi started from the Hanuman Mandir at Kashmiri Gate on Tuesday morning. It will reach Uttar Pradesh by the afternoon, after passing through the busy Outer Ring Road. 

As the Yatra goes ahead in Delhi, a massive police force was deployed to ensure there is no untoward incident. However, traffic in many parts of the city on the Ring Road was thrown out of gear. The Yatra will remain in UP for 2 days and will enter Haryana's Panipat by Thursday evening. Starting from Kanyakumari on September 7, the Yatra has thus far covered more than  3,000 kilometers.

From today, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will walk the entire 120 km that her brother Rahul Gandhi's 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' will travel in Uttar Pradesh. This will be her first major public interaction in U.P after the 2022 Assembly election.

After entering U.P from the Loni border into Ghaziabad on Tuesday, Rahul and Priyanka would travel through Baghpat, touching Kairana along with many other places in Shamli.

Priyanka has remained absent from state politics since the BJP defied history by returning to power for a successive term in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. During the election, Priyanka had led a women-centric campaign with the "ladki hoon, lad sakti hoon" motto.

The Yatra will conclude on January 30 in Srinagar with the hoisting of the national flag by Gandhi.

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