'Could walk a thousand miles for a moment like this:' Rahul Gandhi's post

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has shared a sweet little video clip from the Kerala leg of his Bharat Jodo Yatra in which he his holding aloft a little girl who seems happy and awestruck on meeting him.

The tweet does not say where the picture was taken, but going by the date it was posted it was either from his parliamentary constituency Wayanad or from the nearby district of Malappuram.

The little girl has covered most of her face with her palms in surprise at being in the limelight, and her look conveyed the innocence and joy.


"I could walk a thousand miles for a moment like this," the Congress MP wrote in a post late on Wednesday evening.

Moments of Gandhi interacting with little children were often a part of photographs and videos from the Bharat Jodo Yatra foot march.

A day earlier the handle Bharat Jodo Yatra of the party posted a video of a young girl breaking into tears of happiness at being allowed to walk with the Congress leader.

The girl could not control her emotions and Gandhi drew an arm around her shoulder and hugged her.

Thursday is the last day of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kerala. Gandhi would travel to Gudalur in Tamil Nadu by car and resume the foot march in the evening

The Congress' Bharat Jodo Yatra, which entered Kerala on September 10, went through the state covering 450 km, touching seven districts in 1e days.

The 3,570 km and 150-day-long foot march started from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on September 7. From Kanyakumari, it entered Thiruvananthapuram in south Kerala, before make its way up the state. It will procced further through Tamil Nadu and Karnataka before heading to other states, The Bharat Jodo Yatra will conclude in Jammu and Kashmir after covering 3,570 kms.