The Congress on Wednesday announced that party MP Rahul Gandhi will lead a Bharat Nyay Yatra, or India Justice March, from January 14 to March 20.

Gandhi will travel in a bus but also walk short stretches, covering 6,200 kms across 14 states – Manipur, Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra.

The march will start from Imphal in Manipur after being flagged off by Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge. It will end in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

This exercise will be similar to the Bharat Jodo Yatra, or Unite India March, which started from Kanyakumari on September 7, 2022, and covered over 3,000 kms before concluding in Srinagar on January 30.

Gandhi had raised issues of economic inequality, social polarisation and authoritarianism during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Congress leaders KC Venugopal and Jairam Ramesh said at a press conference in Delhi. The Bharat Nyay Yatra will highlight issues of economic, social and political injustice.

“On December 21, the Congress Working Committee unanimously gave an opinion that Rahul Gandhi should start a yatra from East to West,” said Venugopal. “Rahul Gandhi agreed to fulfill the wishes of [the committee].”

Soon after the announcement, Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Nalin Kohli questioned why the Congress named the march as Bharat Nyay Yatra, reported ANI.

“In this country, Nyay or justice has been happening after 80 crore people have been getting ration from Prime Minister Modi’s government for the last so many years,” Kohli told ANI. “...They are seeing India as one of the fastest growing economies of the world moving from number 10 to number 5.”

The BJP leader said that Congress is only adept at creating such slogans and not at delivering on them.

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