Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday will begin the ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ from the Thoubal district of Manipur. The east-to-west Yatra, which will culminate in Maharashtra’s Mumbai, will crisscross through 100 Lok Sabha segments in 15 states. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and all top leaders of the party will be in Thoubal to flag off the Yatra.
The Congress party says that it was an “ideological” Yatra and not an “electoral” one. “The yatra is being taken out keeping in mind political, economic and social injustices committed in the last 10 years…This is a yatra by a political party. It is an ideological yatra and not an electoral one,” Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh said at a press conference on Saturday, along with former Manipur chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh, state party chief Keisham Meghachandra Singh and Congress Working Committee member Gaikhangam.
He said, “The prime minister shows golden dreams of ‘amrit kaal’ but what is the reality of the last 10 years — ‘anyay kaal’. No mention of ‘anyay kaal’ is made while big boasts of ‘amrit kaal’ are projected.”
This is Rahul Gandhi’s second Yatra, after his earlier ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, which started on September 7, 2022. The Yatra had covered 75 districts and 76 Lok Sabha constituencies across 12 states and two union territories.
Here’s are the main points you need to know of the ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’
-Will traverse 6,713 km, mostly in buses but also on foot.
-It will cover 110 districts, 100 Lok Sabha seats and 337 assembly segments in 67 days, before its finale in Mumbai on March 20 or 21.
-From Manipur, it will enter Nagaland and cover 257 km and five districts in two days
-In Assam, the Yatra will cover 833 km and 17 districts in eight days.
-The yatra will then move to Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya for a day each.
-It will be in West Bengal for five days, covering 523 km and seven districts, and in Bihar for four days, covering 425 km and seven districts.
-In Jharkhand, the yatra will cover 804 km and 13 districts in eight days.
-In Odisha, the yatra will cover 341 km and four districts in four days and cover 536 km and seven districts in Chhattisgarh over five days.
-In Uttar Pradesh, the yatra will spend 11 days, and cover 20 districts.
-In Madhya Pradesh, the yatra will cover 698 km and nine districts in seven days.
-It will cover two districts in Rajasthan in a day.
-The Yatra will be in Gujarat and Maharashtra for five days each, traversing 445 km and 479 km respectively.
-It will conclude in Mumbai on March 20 and 21.
-During the Yatra, Gandhi will address gatherings and also interact with civil society members and organisations twice a day.