After Bharat Jodo, Rahul charts out Nyay Yatra from Manipur to Mumbai ahead of polls

The yatra will be flagged off by Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge in Imphal.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is set to embark on a rally connecting the North East to the West of India with an eye on the elections next year.

Rahul's Bharat Nyay Yatra will kick off on January 14 from Manipur and travel 6,200 km to end in Mumbai on March 20. The Lok Sabha elections are expected around May 2024.

“The Congress Working Committee, during its meeting, asked Rahul Gandhi to launch an East-West yatra, following which, he decided to respect the opinion of the CWC and do it,” said Congress leader KC Venugopal.

Covering 14 states and 85 districts, the yatra will pass through Manipur, Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat before reaching Maharashtra. The yatra will be flagged off by Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge in Imphal. It includes stretches of bus rides as well as foot marches.

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According to NDTV, the Nyay Yatra (rally for justice) will be held for securing economic, social and political justice for the people of the country. The Congress said Manipur was the starting point since the party wanted to begin the process of healing the wounds of people.

The yatra is dubbed as the second and East-West phase of Gandhi’s north-south Bharat Jodo Yatra last year. The Bharat Jodo Yayra was credited by the party for its election victories in two southern states. Venugopal said this yatra comes after Gandhi's great experience from the first Bharat Jodo Yatra. "The yatra is going to interact with youth, women and marginalised people," he said.

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The ruling BJP took a jibe at the Congress announcement. "The people of India had clearly rejected the idea of Bharat Jodo Yatra because Rahul Gandhi and the Congress cannot have duplicity in these approaches. They think the people of India can be fooled by coining some slogans. The real nyay (justice) is being delivered by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government since 2014," said BJP spokesperson Nalin Kohli.