Aiming for next year’s national elections, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to start off on a yatra that would connect the country’s western and northeastern regions. On January 14, Mr. Gandhi will set out on his 6,200-kilometer “Bharat Nyay Yatra,” which would take him from Manipur to Mumbai.
The yatra is referred to as the second and East-West leg of his north-south Bharat Jodo Yatra from the previous year, which is scheduled to end on March 20 ahead of the elections. The party credited the yatra with helping it win elections in two southern states.
However, the BJP mocked the Congress statement, claiming that the Bharat Jodo Yatra concept had been rejected by the general population.
Mallikarjun Kharge, the head of the Congress, will launch the “Bharat Nyay Yatra” in Imphal, covering 14 states and 85 districts.
Among the states he will tour are Manipur, Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Maharashtra. This will involve both footmarches and sections of bus travel.
The Congress stated that the goal of the Nyay Yatra is to ensure that the nation’s citizens have access to economic, social, and political justice.
The Congress stated that by picking violence-torn Manipur as the beginning point, the party hoped to begin the process of mending people’s wounds.
BJP said the people cannot be fooled by coining some slogans.
“The people of India had clearly rejected the idea of Bharat Jodo Yatra because Rahul Gandhi and the Congress cannot have duplicity in these approaches. They think the people of India can be fooled by coining some slogans,” said BJP spokesperson Nalin Kohli.
The “real nyay (justice)” is being delivered by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government since 2014, he added.
September of last year marked the start of Mr. Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari. Thousands of Congress workers and opposition leaders participated in the five-month footmarch, which came to a close in Srinagar in January.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra was generally regarded by Congress officials as the reason for the party’s electoral success in Telangana and Karnataka. In this year’s elections, the Congress had taken power from the BJP in Karnataka and the BRS in Telangana.
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