Congress is all set to kickstart an over two-month Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, led by Rahul Gandhi, from Manipur today (January 14), panning over dozen states forward of the Lok Sabha elections later this yr. Besides Manipur, the yatra will cowl 4 northeastern states — Nagaland (257 km in two days), Arunachal Pradesh (55 km in in the future), Meghalaya (5 km in in the future) and Assam (833 km in eight days). It may also cowl the states within the Hindi heartland together with Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, and conclude in Maharashtra on March 20 or 21.
Details of the Yatra
In Manipur, the yatra shall be flagged off from a personal floor in Thoubal district, as a substitute of Imphal. The yatra shall be in Manipur for a day and canopy just a little over 100 km. The yatra will additional move via 100 Lok Sabha constituencies in 15 states. The yatra will transfer to West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra.
Before beginning the yatra, Rahul Gandhi pays homage to martyrs on the Khongjom War Memorial in Thoubal, in-built reminiscence of these killed within the final Anglo-Manipur War in 1891.
According to the route launched by the social gathering, the yatra will keep the longest in Uttar Pradesh, overlaying 1,074 km in 11 days.
It would move via politically very important areas, together with Amethi, the Gandhi household bastion of Rae Bareli and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency of Varanasi. The yatra will traverse 6,713 km, principally in buses but in addition on foot. It will cowl 110 districts in 67 days, earlier than culminating in Mumbai on March 20 or 21. Rahul Gandhi will handle public gatherings and work together with civil society members and organisations twice a day throughout the yatra.
What did Congress say on the Yatra?
Congress believes it can show to be as “transformative” as the social gathering claimed throughout Rahul Gandhi’s earlier Bharat Jodo Yatra. The social gathering has mentioned it’s taking out the yatra as the federal government didn’t give it an opportunity to elevate individuals’s points in Parliament and the initiative is geared toward re-establishing the rules of justice, liberty, equality and fraternity enshrined within the Constitution.
Being performed months earlier than the final elections, Congress’ Jairam Ramesh mentioned that it’s an “ideological yatra and not an electoral one”. The Yatra comes on the backdrop of huge defeats in three main Hindi states together with Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh within the Assembly polls final yr. The social gathering is trying to revive its fortunes forward of the essential Lok Sabha elections.
On the eve of the graduation of the Yatra, Rahul Gandhi shared a video montage of ladies from Manipur sharing their needs for the march.
“This message of love from the women of Manipur is the blessing we need before we begin our battle for justice tomorrow,” he mentioned on his WhatsApp channel.
With the BJP feeling assured of its victory within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and now specializing in the Ram Mandir consecration ceremony in Ayodhya on January 22, the Congress is trying to discover toes within the electorally essential states within the Hindi heartland and northeast.
(With PTI inputs)
