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About Topic The Congress party is undertaking the 3,570-km ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ that began at Kanniyakumari on September 7, 2022, and will end at Srinagar covering 12 States in 150 days. The party’s biggest mass contact programme in the recent times will see 119 leaders, including former party president Rahul Gandhi.

When the Bharat Jodo Yatra began in September last year, Rahul Gandhi and the Congress had said it was a non-political event and all, irrespective of their party affiliations and ideological beliefs, were welcome. In the course of the yatra, Rahul Gandhi said his intention was to open a shop of love (mohabbat ki dukan) in a bazaar of nafrat (market of hate). By the time it arrived at the Red Fort on Christmas Eve, it acquired a richly layered political message that challenged the ideological foundations of the BJP government. Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s retort to the Yatra came at a BJP rally in Tripura on January 5. He took Rahul Gandhi’s name and announced that Ram temple would be opened in Ayodhya early 2024, the year of the general election. BJP leader and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis followed in Mumbai by declaring that Rahul Gandhi will be invited to have darshan at the Ram temple. The temple, it is likely, will dominate the BJP’s general election campaign. Don't miss | A grand Ram temple at the site of the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya was the pronounced goal of a political yatra that transformed India in the 1990s. The political message of L K Advani’s rath yatra was divisive: A slogan that emerged during the rath yatra was “masjid todo”. The rath yatra and its culmination in the destruction of the Babri Masjid on December 6, 1992, started a phase of Hindutva politics, which may find closure with the opening of the temple soon. Can The idea of ...

New Delhi: 12opposition parties will attend the concluding function of Bharat Jodo Yatra on Monday, sources said today. 21 parties were invited for the function, but some are not attending due to security concerns, they said. Trinamool Congress, Samajwadi Party, and TDP are among the parties to skip the function MK Stalin-led Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Tejashwi Yadav-led Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United), Uddhav Thackeray's Shiv Sena, CPI(M), CPI, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), Kerala Congress, Farooq Abdullah-led Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, Mehbooba Mufti's Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party (PDP), and Shibu Soren's Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) will attend the function in Srinagar. Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also on Saturday joined brother Rahul Gandhi for the Yatra, that resumed from the Chersoo village in Awantipora after being cancelled on Friday due to an alleged security breach. People Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti also joined the yatra in Awantipora. The local police have denied any security lapse during the yatra. The Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) of the area Vijay Kumar on Saturday dismissed the allegations and said that there was no security lapse during the campaign. Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah regarding the January 27 "security lapse" incident of...

Quō vādis (Where are you marching?) would be an apt question about Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra when it leaves Delhi for Srinagar on January 3. The yatra has surprised skeptics by drawing huge crowds throughout its route since its launch on September 7, 2022, from Kanyakumari. This 150 day-journey, traversing 3,570 kilometres with lakhs of people joining, would indeed be remarkable. Yet, its agenda and outcome still remain hazy. Howsoever this idea of the Yatra originated, Rahul Gandhi’s gruelling political journey under adverse conditions has to factor in multiple crises the Congress is beset with. Organisationally weak, it has an acute leadership crisis at each level. It steadfastly keeps holding on to the proverbial coattails of the Nehru-Gandhis for its survival. The strategy ceased to work from 1989 onwards, leading to its current electoral and representational abyss. The BJP’s stupendous effort to disparage Rahul Gandhi as a pappu (a novice and a dullard) and Rahul Baba (an upper-class kid) worked because he has not been at the vanguard of the party since 2004. The Yatra sustaining for such time and distance, however, does raise hope for the party and alternation in the electoral process. Also read: India’s political yatras Yatra, a poignant Sanskrit word (for a journey, caravan, pilgrimage or departure for a war or a religious drama), needs a defined objective to be successful as a political venture. More particularly when awakening, arousing and mobilising peop...

Rahul Gandhi’s Reaching out The bleak state of affairs is eerily similar to what it is in today’s India, where open calls for genocide against Muslims are made still on a regular basis. Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) was the first casualty of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s agenda to marginalise Muslims in 2019, with its dismemberment and disempowerment. This was followed by the empty and hollow rhetoric of removing ‘ Dil ki doori (the distance from the heart)’ and ‘ Dilli ki doori (the distance from Delhi)’. But the final stretch of Mr. Gandhi’s 3,570-kilometre-long yatra, now in Kashmir, is being seen as the first and genuine outreach to the people of J&K who have been threatened into silence and submission. Despite political compulsions, Mr. Gandhi has made his ideological convictions clear. He has taken the bull by the horns instead of choosing myopic electoral gains. His decision to walk in J&K is being seen as an attempt to heal the wounds inflicted on its people, who are being collectively punished and humiliated. Watch | While our country has experienced communal riots throughout its history, the A film steeped in falsehood and propaganda such as The Kashmir Files has been actively promoted by the Government of India since it fulfilled the purpose of demonising Muslims, while a credible documentary by the British Broadcasting Corporation based on the facts that led to the Gujarat massacre has been illegally banned invoking emergency censorship powers. The culture of impunity...

NEW DELHI: Bharat Jodo Yatra, kicked off by Congress leader The Congress has put its heart, mind and soul in the 3,570-km Kanyakumari to Kashmir padyatra which comes about a month ahead of the crucial election for the post of party president on October 17. These two are the most significant events in the Congress calendar ahead of the next parliamentary election. However, the BJP has sought to downplay the yatra which, the Congress leaders claim, is not political. The Congress leaders and workers, who had hit the streets occasionally in June and July over the summoning of Rahul and party president According to All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary in-charge of communications Jairam Ramesh, the Bharat Jodo Yatra was conceived by Sonia Gandhi at the party’s 'Chintan Shivir' held at Udaipur in Rajasthan in May. However, it appears to have the signature of election strategist Prashant Kishor. He is learnt to have advised the Congress to organise a padyatra as one of the measures to rejuvenate the party. Why the need for Bharat Jodo Yatra? The Congress’s stocks have been falling in the last eight years. It has lost two Lok Sabha and majority of the assembly elections during this period proving that its mass support has drastically eroded. Besides, several of its leaders have quit the party, dealing a major blow to the strength and image of the party. These developments have demoralised the Congress workers. The Jairam Ramesh said, “The party is focused on making...

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi shared an emotional anecdote from the Bharat Jodo Yatra. Listen in to what he said. #RahulGandhi #BharatJodoYatra #StanfordUniversity #Congress #USA #HWNews #PressClub #California #RahulGandhiSpeech #America #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #UnitedStates The post appeared first on . Congress leader Rahul Gandhi shared an emotional anecdote from the Bharat Jodo Yatra. Listen in to what he said. #RahulGandhi #BharatJodoYatra #StanfordUniversity #Congress #USA #HWNews #PressClub #California #RahulGandhiSpeech #America #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #UnitedStates The post appeared first on HW News English.

The Narmada rippled calmly as chants invoking her blessings wafted through the nippy morning air and hundreds of people led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi crossed the Mortakka bridge to enter heartland India on Saturday. Sunlight barely peered over the horizon. Mr. Gandhi had already marched some distance — his Congress holds Bharat Jodo Yatra in Nagaland The previous evening, Mr. Gandhi had performed Narmada aarti at Omkareshwar where Adi Sankara found his guru. The BJP government in Madhya Pradesh is planning a statue of the sage from Kerala — Statue of Oneness — there. For the MP from Kerala too, this is a journey of discovery — of himself, his party and the people. In his early phase in politics, Mr. Gandhi had tried to reform the Congress, but he gave up that idea when the party lost the 2019 Lok Sabha election. He quit as president and has refused to return. Mr. Gandhi seems to be testing the endurance of his comrades. A woman carried her shoes in her hand after they came off and walked barefoot for several kilometres — one can’t stop without dropping off. Dinesh Sharma, an ardent follower from Haryana, is walking barefoot from Kanniyakumari. He has vowed to remain shoeless until Mr. Gandhi becomes India’s Prime Minister. Wrapped in the colours of the national flag, and carrying one, he walks just one step behind Mr. Gandhi. Bharat Jodo Yatra | Woman ragpicker shares her woes with Rahul Gandhi, in Madhya Pradesh’s Khargone district Along the way in his political lif...

By India Today News Desk: Bihar BJP president Samrat Choudhary launched an attack against Rahul Gandhi, likening the Congress leader with slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden. “Rahul Gandhi grows beard like Osama bin Laden and thinks that he will become like Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” Bihar BJP president Samrat Choudhary said on Friday. "Nitish Kumar is going around the country, telling everyone he is the Prime Minister of the country. Is Nitish Kumar the PM?" Choudhary said, adding, "Has he lost his mental balance...” The BJP leader also questioned the opposition unity and the inability to decide on a prime ministerial candidate. He said that Nitish Kumar's mental state had become like the character of Aamir Khan in the film 'Ghajini'. ALSO READ |