After warm up with wrestlers, Rahul Gandhi unveils ‘Nyaya Yatra’
Rahul Gandhi
By Our Special Correspondent
New Delhi, December 27: Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi caught wrestlers in the Chhara village in Jhajjhar district In Haryana unawares as he arrived to warm up in the ‘Akhara’ of Deepak Puniya. Gandhi spoke to the wrestlers early on Wednesday morning as he descended in the village early in the morning when the area was covered under a heavy carpet of fog.
Later in the day the Congress announced the 67-day long ‘Nyaya Yatra’ of Gandhi from Imphal in Manipur to Mumbai in Maharashtra. Congress communications department head Jairam Ramesh unveiled the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra 2.0’ plan of the party. Congress president Mallikarjuna Kharge will flag off the yatra of Gandhi which will cover a distance of 6200 kms.
The Congress is aiming to ride the yatra for a revival of the party in the Northeastern and the eastern states where the party has almost been wiped out from the political scenes in the recent years. Ramesh said that the yatra will begin from January 14 and conclude on March 20. By the time the yatra will conclude, the Congress is likely to be in the thick of the actions for the Lok Sabha elections, likely to be held in April-May next year.
Congress general secretary (organisation) KC Venugpal said that the motive of the yatra is to help the people gain “social, economic, and political justice”. It may be noted that the Congress leaders had linked the breach of security of parliament this month to the issue of unemployment in the country. The CMIE in a report had recently said that the unemployment rate in the country has touched a two year high of over 10 per cent. A report by the Azim Premji University had said that unemployment among the fresh graduates in the country is to the extent of 42 per cent.
The ‘Nyaya Yatra’ will cover Manipur, Nagaland, Assam, Mizoram, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Maharashtra. Gandhi had launched his Bharat Jodo Yatra from the southern parts of the country. The Congress leaders claim that the yatra had been instrumental in winning the Assembly elections in Karnataka and Telangana this year.
The Yatra will cover 14 states which have a total of 355 Lok Sabha seats, which have largely been won by the Bharatiya Janata Party and the regional parties in the 2019 general elections. The BJP had won a total of 237 Lok Sabha seats in the regions to be covered by the ‘Nyaya Yatra’ of the Congress. However, the political observers claim that the Congress may test the patience of the Opposition parties in the Indian National and Inclusive Alliance (INDIA). Subscribe: youtube.com/@TheRaisinaHills Follow: Twitter.com/theraisinahills
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