Rahul Gandhi's yatra to skip west UP, cut short by 5 days

LUCKNOW:

Rahul Gandhi

's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra has been

curtailed

by five days and will skip most of the scheduled stops in western UP. While the party said the decision was taken because of the

UP Board examinations

from Feb 22, it was viewed as linked to Jayant Chaudhary's RLD quiting INDIA bloc and joining NDA.
RLD's base is western UP, where it was supposed to have been the bulwark of the opposition resistance to BJP.

There was also a tiff between Congress and Jayant in RS when he was called to speak about the Bharat Ratna to his late grand father and farmer leader Charan Singh, creating bitterness.
The yatra will now touch upon western UP only at the exit point to MP, sources said.