Rahul Gandhi to lead Bharat Nyay Yatra from January 14

After Bharat Jado yatra, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will begin his 'Bharat Nyay Yatra' from January 14, a 6,200-km tour from Manipur to Mumbai.The yatra, set to conclude on March 20 ahead of the elections,is dubbed as the second and East-West phase of his north-south Bharat Jodo Yatra last year that was credited by the party for its election victories in two southern states. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge flagging will flag off the yatra from Imphal on January 14.
Gandhi will cover 14 states and 85 districts during the 'Bharat Nyay Yatra', which will be flagged off by Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge in Imphal.Manipur, Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra will be among the states he will cover. This will include stretches of bus rides as well as footmarches.The Nyay Yatra will be for securing economic, social and political justice for the people of the country, the Congress said.On choosing violence-hit Manipur as the starting point, the Congress said the party wanted to begin the process of healing the wounds of people.
Gandhi had embarked on his Bharat Jodo Yatra in September last year from Kanyakumari. The five-month footmarch that saw the participation of thousands of Congress workers as well as Opposition leaders ended in Srinagar in January.Congress leaders had widely credited the Bharat Jodo Yatra behind the party's electoral performance in Karnataka and Telangana. The Congress had snatched power from the BJP in Karnataka and BRS in Telangana in elections held this year.Announcing details of the Bharat Nyay Yatra, AICC general secretary (organisation) K C Venugopal said, “The Congress Working Committee on December 21 gave an opinion that Rahul Gandhiji should start a yatra from East to West. Rahul Gandhiji has agreed to fulfill the wish of the CWC.” Venugopal asserted that it will not be a political yatra, and the party wanted to just raise the issues affecting the common people – the Congress had given the same reasoning for Bharat Jodo Yatra.