Key Highlights
- The song, ‘Mera mulk, mera desh, mera ye vatan,’ (My land; my country; this, my homeland) echoes through the air, shattering decibel limits, as the procession passes through a village.
- Behind the truck, a large white banner on a makeshift chariot reads “Vande Bharat Ekta Yatra” in red letters, accompanied by pictures of India’s first Home Minister Sardar Patel and local hero Raja Hasan Khan Mewati, who resisted Mughal emperor Babur.
- About 100 men, women, and children wearing garlands and waving the tricolour, walk behind the rath, their faces full of enthusiasm.
- As the padyatra (foot march) passes through a roadside settlement, a motorcyclist stops to inquire about the procession.
- “Yoh ke se?” (What is this?) he asks in a Mewati accent.
