New Delhi: On the lines of his previous Bharat Jodo Yatra, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will start an outreach programme from Manipur to culminate in Mumbai on March 20. Gandhi will kick off the yatra on January 14, Congress general secretary (Organisation) K C Venugopal announced on Wednesday.
“On December 21, Congress Working Committee unanimously gave an opinion that Rahul Gandhi should start a yatra from East to West. Rahul Gandhi also agreed to fulfill the wishes of the CWC. All India Congress Committee has decided to hold a ‘Bharat Nyay Yatra’ from January 14 to March 20, from Manipur to Mumbai,” Venugopal told a press conference.
Gandhi will cover a distance of 6,200 km during the 65-day march, traversing 14 states and 85 districts, the Congress leader said.
The states include Manipur, Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra.
“In this yatra, Rahul Gandhi is going to interact with the youth, women and marginalised people,” he added.
However, unlike the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the latest outreach programme will be undertaken on a bus.
“Bus yatra allows maximum access to the people on the way,” Venugopal said, adding that the yatra will include “short stretches of walking every now and then”.
Notably, Gandhi undertook the Bharat Jodo Yatra that covered 4500 km over 150 days starting from Kanyakumari on September 6 last year.
