The 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' will start on Wednesday with Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel and his Tamil Nadu and Rajasthan counterparts M.K. Stalin and Ashok Gehlot handing over the Indian flag to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu.
Congress sources said the purpose behind the march with the national flag is because the Congress wants like-minded parties and civil society groups to join the event, a Congress leader said.
On the proposed march, Rahul Gandhi said on Sunday that the opposition has no way but to go to the people of the country.
Prior to the 'Bharat Jodo Yatra', Rahul Gandhi will visit the Rajiv Gandhi memorial at Sriperumbudur near Chennai on September 7.
A LTTE suicide bomber assassinated former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi at an election rally at Sriperumbudur in May 1991.
The Gandhi scion will visit for the first time the place where his father and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in May 1991 by a LTTE suicide bomber.
Gandhi will also visit the Vivekananda Rock Memorial, Thiruvalluvar Memorial and Kamaraj memorial. An all-religion prayer will be conducted at Gandhi Mandapam at Kanyakumari after which the Yatra would start.