Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will start ‘Bharat Nyaya Yatra’ from January 14. This journey from Manipur to Mumbai will pass through 14 states and 85 districts. This panda from east to west will be completed in 67 days. After the success of the ‘Bharat Joko Yatra’, Rahul’s next trip is being seen as an act of rallying support for the Congress ahead of the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections. The Niaye Yatra, which will cover a distance of around 6200 km, is to be completed mostly by buses and on foot. The proposed journey will end in Mumbai on March 20. Earlier, Rahul had completed the ‘Bharat Joko Yatra’ from Kanyakumari to Kashmir last year, a distance of more than 4000 km in 136 days.
Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said during the press conference that while Gandhi had raised the issues of ‘economic inequality, polarization and dictatorship’ during ‘Bharat Joko Yatra’, the ‘Nyaye Yatra’ was about social, economic and political justice for the people of the country. will focus on Ramesh said that Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge will flag off the Nyaya Yatra from Imphal on January 14. The journey will pass through Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, UP, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra. This march of the Congress is being considered politically important in view of the Lok Sabha elections to be held next year. The Lok Sabha elections are to be held in April-May. Elections can be announced during the last leg of the journey.
The Bharat Joko Yatra, which began on 7 September 2022 and ended in January 2023, benefited the Congress significantly in the assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana. The party had claimed that with this trip of Rahul, a new spirit was breathed into the party workers and leaders. Ramesh said, “After Bharat Joko Yatra, Congress will now take out Bharat Nyaya Yatra under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi.” He said that Congress will hold a huge rally in Nagpur on December 28 on the occasion of the founding day of the party. The rally, named ‘Hain Zaar Hum’, will be the bugle for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections for the Congress. Congress General Secretary (Organization) KC Venugopal said that during the Nyaya Yatra, contact will be made with women, youth and marginalized communities. He said that Nyay Yatra will cover more pandas in less time than ‘Bharat Joko Yatra’ as most of the distance during Nyay Yatra will be covered by bus while some pandas will be covered on foot. Let us tell you that in the meeting of the Congress Working Committee held on December 21, a unanimous resolution was passed that Rahul Gandhi should take the second round of the journey from the east to the west of the country.
When asked about the motive behind choosing Manipur for the start of the yatra, Venugopal said that it is an important part of the country and the party wanted the process to begin with ‘salve on the wounds’ of the people of the northeastern state. . In response to a question about the participation of India alliance parties in the trip, he said that work is still going on. During the Bharat Joko Yatra, Gandhi addressed 12 public rallies, more than 100 street meetings and 13 press conferences.
