New Delhi: AICC former Chief Rahul Gandhi on Saturday in his address with party leaders and workers he said that the motive of his yatra is to open a ‘mohabbat ki dukaan’ (shop of love) amid a ‘nafrat ka bazaar’ (market of hatred).

Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra entered in Delhi on Saturday early morning. Delhi Congress President Anil Chaudhary and party workers welcomed him, other party leaders and the yatris at Badarpur Border as they entered Delhi from Faridabad. He was accompanied with Punjab former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Kumari Selja and Randeep Surjewala in Bharat Jodo Yatra.

Common man of the country is now talking about love. In every state, lakhs have joined the yatra. I have told people of RSS and BJP that we are here to open shop of love in your ‘bazar’ of hatred, he said. They (BJP, RSS) spread hatred, we (Congress) spread love, he added.

The Yatra will make its morning halt in New Delhi at Ashram chowk at 11 am and will resume its journey at 1 pm. The Yatra will proceed via Mathura road, India Gate and ITO, it will halt near the Red Fort.

The Delhi Police have released a traffic advisory asking commuters to avoid certain routes and make maximum use of public transport. The traffic, says the advisory, is expected to remain heavy from Badarpur to Red Fort. Some of the affected roads/routes are Badarpur flyover, Apollo Flyover, Modi Mill flyover, Ashram Chowk, Andrews Ganj, Lajpat Nagar Flyover, Moolchand, Pragati Maidan, Mathura Road, Mandi House, Rajghat Chowk, among others.

The Yatra, which completed 100 days on December 16^th, the Yatra will again resume on January 3^rd from Delhi.