patna poll strategistturnedpolitical activist prashant kishor pk will embark on a statewide padyatra foot march from bhitiharwa ashram in west champaran district on sunday he is slated to walk for around 3500km over the next one and a half years under his jansuraj campaign with the motive of interacting with people at grassroots level and identifying their problems ahead of launching a political partypk has strategically chosen bhitiharwa ashram as the starting point of his yatra as it is the place from where mahatma gandhi had started his satyagraha movement against the british empire in 1917 the pks padytra also coincides with gandhis birth anniversary on october 2 pk also claims that the political outfit or party which he will form will follow the gandhian ideology i will walk for around 3500 kilometres and try to reach every block and most panchayats in the state it will take around one to one and a half years to complete the padyatra during which i will not return to patna or delhi he said pk who was at patna on saturday will leave for bhitiharwa at 1pm on sunday hundreds of vehicles are likely to accompany him on the way he is scheduled to kickstart the yatra by 130pmkishor is slated to walk in different areas of west champaran for around 35 days there are basically three purposes of this padyatra identifying right people and bringing them on a common democratic platform making a blueprint of development of towns and panchayats based on identification of grassroots issues and finally preparation of a vision document for holistic development of bihar through development in 10 key sectors over the next 15 years he said