Amritsar/IBNS: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi offered prayers at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on Tuesday, a day before he commences the Punjab leg of his party's Bharat Jodo Yatra.

Rahul Gandhi arrived at the Amritsar airport in the afternoon after concluding the Haryana leg of the foot march.

Sporting an orange turban, the Congress MP paid obeisance at the sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple.

"By reaching Sri Harmandir Sahib, the faith in human values becomes even deeper. Sat Shri Akal!" he said in a tweet in Hindi.

Rahul also posted a few pictures on Twitter, where he is seen taking "parshad" and listening to "gurbani" during his Golden Temple visit.

The Congress leader was accompanied by Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, Leader of Opposition in the Punjab Assembly Partap Singh Bajwa, local MP Gurjit Singh Aujla and other party leaders.

Till Tuesday morning, several Punjab Congress leaders were not aware of Rahul Gandhi's plan to visit Amritsar.

Meanwhile, ahead of the Punjab leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) targeted the Congress over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

"The way Sikhs were killed in 1984, the Congress never felt ashamed of it. I hope that during his yatra, he (Rahul Gandhi) will seek an apology from Punjabis for that heinous act," Punjab BJP chief Ashwani Sharma said.

SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal dubbed Rahul Gandhi's yatra as a "drama" and slammed the Congress for the 1984 riots.

According to the schedule of the yatra, Gandhi will pay obeisance at Gurdwara Fatehgarh Sahib in Sirhind on Wednesday morning and thereafter, the Punjab leg of the foot march will start.