NEW DELHI: The Congress on Wednesday announced that Rahul Gandhi will lead a Bharat Nyay Yatra, or India Justice March, from Jan 14 to March 20.

Mr Gandhi will travel in a bus but also walk short stretches, covering 6,200km across 14 states, the Scroll portal said.

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 Sept 7, 2022, and covered over 3,000km before concluding in Srinagar on Jan 30.

The Bharat Nyay Yatra will highlight issues of economic, social and political injustice.

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

“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 was quoted as saying in an interview. “...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.

Published in Dawn, December 28th, 2023