Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra begins on January 14 from Imphal
The Congress will start the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra from the violence-hit Manipur on Sunday, in what’s being seen because the social gathering’s bid to set the narrative within the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls and put the highlight on points reminiscent of unemployment, worth rise and social justice.
The Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra will journey by means of 100 Lok Sabha segments in 15 states and the social gathering believes it can show to be as “transformative” as Mr. Gandhi’s earlier cross-country march.
The Congress has mentioned that it’s taking out the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra as the federal government didn’t give it an opportunity to lift folks’s points in Parliament and the initiative is aimed toward re-establishing the rules of justice, liberty, equality and fraternity enshrined within the Structure.
Although the Congress has pressured that this isn’t an electoral yatra, it comes at an important juncture because the social gathering seeks to revive its fortunes after a poor exhibiting within the final spherical of meeting elections.
With the BJP specializing in the January 22 Ram temple consecration ceremony, the Congress desires to place the highlight on bread-and-butter points by means of this yatra.
Mr. Gandhi had on Friday mentioned emotional points are being “misused” politically and a focus is being diverted from actual points, in a “betrayal” of the folks of the nation.
In a submit on X, the previous Congress president mentioned, “The youth should take into consideration what would be the identification of the India of our desires? High quality of life or simply feelings? Youth elevating provocative slogans or the employed youth? Love or hate?”.
The yatra can be flagged off from a non-public floor in Manipur’s Thoubal district, as a substitute of Imphal, the social gathering’s preliminary selection.
The state authorities had given the Congress conditional approval to flag off the yatra from the Palace grounds right here, proscribing the variety of folks. Due to this fact, the Congress determined to go for one other venue.
Manipur has been rocked by ethnic violence since Could final 12 months which has claimed over 180 lives.
The violence erupted on Could 3 final 12 months after a ‘Tribal Solidarity March’ was organised within the hill districts to protest in opposition to the Meitei group’s demand for Scheduled Tribe (ST) standing.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and all high leaders of the social gathering can be in Thoubal to flag off the yatra.
The Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra would traverse 6,713 km largely in buses but additionally on foot. The yatra will cowl 110 districts, 100 Lok Sabha seats and 337 meeting segments in 67 days, earlier than its finale in Mumbai on March 20 or 21.
The Congress has mentioned the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra is being organised to lift voice in opposition to the “injustice” of the final 10 years. It has launched a “Nyay anthem” with the tagline “Saho Mat, Daro Mat (don’t endure, don’t be scared)”.
The anthem was shared on all of the social media handles of the social gathering with a video that includes protesting girls wrestlers, glimpses from Mr. Gandhi’s Kanyakumari-to-Kashmir Bharat Jodo Yatra and his interactions with farmers and labourers.
The Congress has additionally invited all leaders of the Indian Nationwide Inclusive Developmental Alliance (INDIA) bloc to affix the yatra anyplace alongside its route.
In keeping with the route launched by the social gathering, the yatra would keep the longest in Uttar Pradesh, overlaying 1,074 km in 11 days. It could move by means of politically important areas, together with Amethi, the Gandhi household bastion Rae Bareli and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency of Varanasi.
Congress normal secretary Jairam Ramesh has asserted that the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra would show to be as impactful and transformative as the sooner over 4,000-km Bharat Jodo Yatra.
In the course of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Gandhi had raised three huge problems with rising inequality, rising social polarisation and rising political tyranny and authoritarianism, and the best way out of that is to make sure justice for folks, Ramesh has mentioned.
The Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra can be in Manipur for a day.
It’ll then enter Nagaland and canopy 257 km and 5 districts in two days earlier than overlaying 833 km and 17 districts in Assam in eight days.
The yatra will then transfer to Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya for a day every.
In keeping with the route map, the yatra can be in West Bengal for 5 days, overlaying 523 km and 7 districts, and in Bihar for 4 days, overlaying 425 km and 7 districts.
In Jharkhand, the yatra will cowl 804 km and 13 districts in eight days.
In Odisha, the yatra will cowl 341 km and 4 districts in 4 days and canopy 536 km and 7 districts in Chhattisgarh over 5 days.
The east-to-west yatra will spend the utmost time in Uttar Pradesh and canopy 20 districts.
In Madhya Pradesh, the yatra will cowl 698 km and 9 districts in seven days. It’ll cowl two districts in Rajasthan in a day.
The yatra can be in Gujarat and Maharashtra for 5 days every, traversing 445 km and 479 km respectively.
The Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra will conclude in Mumbai on March 20 or 21.
Mr. Gandhi will tackle gatherings and likewise work together with civil society members and organisations twice a day through the yatra.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra, which began on September 7, 2022, was credited by the Congress for its electoral positive factors in meeting elections in Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra coated 75 districts and 76 Lok Sabha constituencies throughout 12 states and two union territories.
