After Bharat Jodo Yatra, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is expected to undertake the ‘Bharat Nyay Yatra’ from January 14 to March 20. The 6,200 kilometer Bharat Nyaya Yatra will begin in Imphal, Manipur and end in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Unlike last time, this Yatra focuses on the regions from East to West India. It will cover 14 states including Manipur, Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, UP, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra, along with 85 districts, the Congress party announced on Wednesday.
The mode of Yatra is bus journey, accompanied by short walks from time to time, AICC General Secretary (Organization) KC Venugopal said.
“On December 21, the Congress Working Committee (CWC) issued a notice that Rahul Gandhi should launch a yatra from East to West. Rahul Gandhi also agreed to fulfill the wish of the CWC. The All-Congress Committee- “India has therefore decided to hold a ‘Bharat Nyay Yatra’ from January 14 to March 20 from Manipur to Mumbai,” he said at a press conference.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will give the signal for the Yatra, which will take place just before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. During the march, Rahul Gandhi is expected to interact with youth, women and marginalized people.
Previously, the Bharat Jodo Yatra, which began in Kanyakumari in September 2022 and concluded in January 2023 in Srinagar, was led by Rahul Gandhi. At the time, Gandhi had traveled more than 4,000 km from Kanyakumari to Kashmir.
βRahul Gandhi led the Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir covering 4,500 km. It was a historic yatra in Indian political history. He will undertake this yatra with the experience he had from the Bharat Jodo Yatra,β Venugopal said.
“During the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Rahul Gandhi raised three issues: economic inequality, social polarization and political dictatorship. But the issue of the Bharat Nyay Yatra is economic justice, social justice and political justice,” said Congress MP Jairam Ramesh.
