Ahead of the 2024 general elections, Rahul Gandhi will commence another 6200 km “Bharat Nyay Yatra'' from January 14 to March 20, 2024, from Manipur to Mumbai. The Yatra is the East-West phase of Congress’s previously held "Bharat Jodo Yatra" and is set to cover 14 states and 85 districts.
Sharing the information about the same on Wednesday, the Congress General Secretary, K C Venugopal asserted, "Now Rahul Gandhi is doing a yatra with great experience from the first Bharat Jodo Yatra. This Yatra is going to interact with youth, women, and marginalized people. The Congress working committee had opined that Rahul Gandhi should start a yatra from east to west."
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge will kickstart the yatra from Imphal, which will be mostly covered by bus along with short stretches of walking.
Before reaching its final destination (Maharashtra), this 6200 km yatra will traverse through Manipur, Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat, added the General Secretary.
Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra, spanning 4500 km over 150 days, traversed North-South states and is credited as a contributing factor to the Indian National Congress (INC) clinching victories in assembly polls in Karnataka and Telangana. Launched in September 2022, the yatra extended from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. Describing this monumental journey, Venugopal heralds it as a "historic" event in the annals of Indian politics.
Meanwhile, BJP leaders slammed the Congress once again for the yatra tactics, saying one cannot fool the public just by citing some slogans when people already "rejected" the idea of previous yatra.
BJP spokesperson Nalin Kohli commented, “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. The "real nyay (justice)" has been delivered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government since 2014.”
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