Updated: Dec 18 2022 2:30PM

Dausa (Rajasthan), Dec 18 (PTI) Marking the continuum of time and political history as he notches up mile after mile in the Bharat Jodo Yatra with a stick in one hand and the tricolour in the other, 88-year-old Karuna Prasad Mishra knits together old world idealism with steely pragmatism about the India of today.

If politics be the food of love, march on. That, to misquote Shakespeare, could well be the mantra for the octogenarian who joined the Rahul Gandhi-led yatra from Ujjain and is defying age with his single minded resolve of walking all the way till Srinagar to hoist the tricolour from Lal Chowk.

“I resolved at the Mahakaleshwar temple in Ujjain that I will travel till Kashmir… Congress workers asked me to sit in a car but I said no. I will take another resolution after I hoist the tricolour at Lal Chowk in Srinagar and I will undertake an east to west yatra,” Mishra told PTI.

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