The Congress’s Rahul Gandhi-led ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra‘ arrived in Varanasi on Saturday, the second day of its Uttar Pradesh leg. Gandhi, along with the party’s state president Ajay Rai and other congress officials, toured the temple town’s crowded Gudauli neighbourhood from an open vehicle. Rahul Gandhi also went to the Kashi Vishwanath temple.
Pallavi Patel, the leader of the Apna Dal (Kamerawadi), and the Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA from Sirathu also participated in the yatra in Varanasi.
On Friday, the yatra entered the state from Bihar, stopping at Chanduali for the night.
SP president Akhilesh Yadav has said that he will attend the yatra in Rae Bareli.
The yatra will pass through Uttar Pradesh before entering Rajasthan. The east-west Manipur-Mumbai yatra will travel approximately 6,700 km across 15 states, highlighting the theme of ‘nyay’ (justice) while meeting ordinary people along the journey.
Route that the Yatra followed
The ‘Yatra‘ will travel 536 km across Chhattisgarh, going through Raigarh, Sakti, Korba, Surajpur, Surguja, and Balrampur districts before entering Jharkhand on February 14. A few days ago, he stated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi may soon hand over the state’s steel mills to his billionaire friends, and that the economic injustice has been deliberately orchestrated by the PM in a country where the ruling party at the centre (BJP) is keen on concentrating the nation’s wealth and resources in a few hands.
The date for the second portion of the yatra has yet to be determined. The ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’, which began in Manipur on January 14, is slated to span 6,713 kilometres in 67 days, traversing through 110 districts in 15 states before finishing in Mumbai on March 20.
