The Nyay Yatra that will start on the January 14 in Imphal Manipur and is expected to conclude on March 20 in Mumbai….reports Asian Lite News
Congress leader and former Party president Rahul Gandhi will once again go on a Yatra -this time from East to West. The Congress Party on Wednesday announced the Nyay Yatra that will start on the January 14 in Imphal Manipur and is expected to conclude on March 20 in Mumbai, Maharashtra.
Rahul Gandhi is expected to interact with youth, women and marginalised people in this Yatra. The Congress party said that the Nyay Yatra will cover 6,200 kms. It will traverse a route through the states of Manipur, Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and finally Maharashtra.
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The Yatra will cover 14 states and 85 districts.
Speaking at a news conference in Delhi, Organisation Secretary KC Venugopal said ” Bharat Nyay Yatra to start from January14 to March 20 from Manipur to Mumbai. Now Rahul Gandhi is doing a yatra with great experience from first Bharat Jodo Yatra. He is going to interact with youth, women and marginalised people. Yatra will cover 6,200 kms. This time the Yatra will be carried out by Bus with leaders expected to walk certain sections of the route.”
“On December 21, Congress workers gave opinion that Rahul Gandhi should start Yatra from East to West. Rahul Gandhi also agreed to fulfil the wishes of CWC” Venugopal added.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will flag off the Yatra which will crisscross 14 states and 85 districts. The Yatra come during a period where the camapigning for the 2024 Lok Sabha election is also expected to pick up. Some of the state through which the Yatra is expected to traverse are currently ruled by parties that form part of the INDIA alliance and it is to be seen if these parties join the Congress Yatra.
Earlier, the Bharat Jodo Yatra, which started in Kanyakumari on September 7 2022 was led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, concluded on January 30 2023 in Srinagar after covering 3,970 km, 12 states, and two Union territories and having lasted more than 130 days.
In the first leg of the yatra, Gandhi had walked almost 4,000 km from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. The impact of Rahul Gandhi’s yatra was seen during the polls in Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh, as the Congress recorded a sharp increase in strike rate and vote share. The Yatra travelled 511km in Karnataka over 22 days between Gundlupet constituency and Raichur Rural constituency. (ANI)
Cong to Begin 2024 Campaign With Mega Rally in Nagpur
Senior Congress leaders have started arriving in the Orange City for the mega-rally scheduled on Thursday to mark the grand old party’s 138th foundation day, party functionaries said here on Wednesday.
Maharashtra Congress President Nana Patole said that historically, whenever a crisis confronted the country, it was from Nagpur that the Congress launched its war against the problems.
Speaking to the media, he said the current situation facing the nation is no different with democracy and Constitution, and all four pillars of democracy under severe threats.
“It is the responsibility of the Congress to safeguard and preserve our democracy and its democratic institutions… We shall issue the message of change tomorrow and resolve to bring down the tyrannical and arrogant BJP government,” Patole said.
The Congress event shall be held at the ‘Bharat Jodo Maidan’ in the presence of party President Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, top party office-bearers from all states, all state Chief Ministers, ministers, elected representatives and others.
Patole reminded how the Congress won India’s Independence with the sacrifices of thousands of freedom fighters that ultimately forced the British rulers to leave the country.
“The contributions of Maharashtra to the Independence movement is huge. In the 60 years of Congress rule, all top leaders and Prime Ministers, from Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru to Manmohan Singh, strived to make India a global power… Unfortunately, in the past 10 years of the BJP rule, the country has plummeted on all fronts,” said Patole.
He also accused the BJP of exploiting caste-religion issues and creating social-communal divides and disturbances that have led to a decline in the country’s image, even as other burning problems of inflation, unemployment, safety of women, farmers’ woes, education, health, etc. are ignored.
“At the same time, by misusing the central agencies like ED, CBI, I-T, the Opposition is being intimidated and their voice is smothered if they speak out against the government. But, just as the powerful British were forced to quit, even the dictatorial BJP will be packed off with Rahul Gandhi’s slogan of ‘Daro Mat’ (Fear Not) in the 2024 elections,” declared Patole.
Patole and other senior party leaders took a detailed review of the arrangements for the Congress rally, which they said could attract several lakhs of people from the state and elsewhere.
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