Congress 'Pad-Yatra' Lacks Oomph
Patna: Oct. 2, 2007
 The fact that the old fogies in the Congress Party have run out of gas could not have been more evident than during the so-called 'pad-yatra' in Patna on Tuesday to mark the 138th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi when the participants, save for some young bloods, either abandoned the walk prematurely, or took rickshaw or other means of conveyance to reach the destination.
The nearly 5 kilometer distance between Gandhi Maidan and Shaheed Smarak, while started with all zeal and fervor, by the time the leaders completed the first kilometer, most were looking for a way to ditch the bandwagon or looking for a faster way to reach the goal.
 While many did disappear after few minutes of flag waving, those who could not because of their status in the party, hitched rides to the Shaheed Smarak where senior party leader and state president Sadanand Singh was waiting to welcome them with a Congress Party flag in his hand.
Youth Congress leaders, however, lived up to the expectations by covering the distance in less than an hour while being cheered up by a sound system in a jeep playing 'Sabarmati ke Sant…'
At Shaheed Smarak, Congress leader Dr. Ashok Kumar and Dr. Mahachandra Prasad Singh addressed a brief gathering that soon dispersed thanks to the exhaustion caused by the long walk.
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