Ahead of Lok Sabha polls, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is set to undertake ‘Manipur to Mumbai’ Bharat Nyay Yatra starting on 14 January. The 6,200 km yatra cross 14 states and 85 district including Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat will end in Mumbai on 20 March 2024.
The announcement was made by Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal and Jairam Ramesh during a press conference.
Addressing a press conference, Venugopal said, “This Yatra will cover a distance of 6,200 km. It travels the states including Manipur, Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, UP, MP, Rajasthan, Gujarat and finally Maharashtra. The mode of yatra is through the bus.”
Unlike the previous Bharat Jodo Yatra, the latest Bharat Nyay Yatra will be undertaken on a bus. However, Venugopal added that, though this is a bus yatra but there will be a walking stretch as well.
Speaking on the objectives of the yatra, he added that Bharat Nyay Yatra, the name itself is reflecting the objective of the yatra, ‘Sabke liye nyay chahiye’…” “This Yatra is going to interact with youth, women and marginalised people,” he said.
The East-West yatra will be flagged off by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on January 14th from Manipur capital Imphal. Speaking on the starting the yatra from Manipur, Venugopal added, “Without Manipur how can we do a yatra? We have to try to heal the pain of the people of Manipur..”