Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra In Gujarat To Cover 14 Lok Sabha Seats But Will It Help Congress? | India News

Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra is in Gujarat from as we speak the place the Congress chief will cowl 400 kilometres throughout seven districts over the subsequent 4 days. During this, Rahul Gandhi will provide prayers at temples and go to the historic Swaraj Ashram at Bardoli to pay tribute to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. He will even maintain 27 nook conferences and 6 public gatherings earlier than getting into Maharashtra. Gujarat, as soon as a Congress stronghold, has saved Congress at bay for the previous twenty years. In the final Lok Sabha elections in 2019, the BJP had bagged all 26 seats. The scenario of the Congress is such within the state that for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, it has agreed to ally with the Aam Aadmi Party, which is simply 5 years outdated in Gujarat however is doing higher than the grand outdated social gathering. 

Nyay Yatra Route, Constituency

Rahul Gandhi’s Gujarat leg of Nyay Yatra begins from Zalod within the Dahod district. Of the entire 467 km that Rahul Gandhi will cowl, it passes via 7 districts – Dahod, Panchmahal, Chhota Udepur, Bharuch, Tapi, Surat, and Navsari. The 14 Parliamentary constituencies embody Dahod, Panchmahal, Chhota Udaipur, Bharuch, Bardoli, Surat and Navsari Lok Sabha seats. 

Exodus In Congress 

Weeks forward of Rahul Gandhi’s Gujarat go to, key leaders give up the social gathering and joined the ruling BJP within the state. This got here as a setback for Congress that’s already struggling for standard and profitable faces within the state. In the final three months, Navsari district president Dharmesh Bhim Patel, Porbandar MLA Arjun Modhwadia, former MLA Chirag Patel, MLA CJ Chavda and Ambarish Der left the Congress. 

The flurry of exits by the MLAs introduced down Congress illustration within the 182-member Gujarat (*14*) has decreased to 14 from 17. The exit of Modhwadia, a distinguished OBC determine, and Der, a distinguished Ahir chief, left the Congress with no faces to characterize these two communities in Porbandar and Amreli. Without them, the Congress is about to lose a major chunk of OBC and Ahir votes as effectively. 

Trouble For Congress

Gujarat, which has grow to be a fort of BJP, votes for the saffron social gathering in unison and an exodus of senior social gathering leaders within the state have created additional illustration void challenges for the Congress. The vote share of Congress is already shrinking within the state. The social gathering acquired 32 per cent votes within the 2019 polls and 27 per cent within the 2022 meeting polls.