As the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra enters its 37th day, Congress General Secretary in Charge of Communications, Jairam Ramesh, announced on Monday that Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi will attend a public rally in Babuganj.
“Today is the 37th day of Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi will address a public rally in Babuganj. We will stay in Amethi tonight and reach Raebareli tomorrow morning. We will stay in Lucknow tomorrow and in Kanpur the day after. Then, we will take 2 days’ rest on 22nd and 23rd February…” said Congress leader, Jairam Ramesh.
When asked about Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh joining Bharat Jodo Naya Yatra, Jairam Ramesh said, “I expect that he will join the Yatra tomorrow. Earlier, Apna Dal leader Pallavi Patel also joined the yatra.”
Previously, the Samajwadi Party Chief welcomed Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge’s invitation to participate in the Yatra, stating that he will do it in Amethi or Rae Bareli. However, with little progress being made in the two parties’ seat-sharing talks, there are indications that the SP Chief will remain away from the Yatra as it passes through Uttar Pradesh.
Meanwhile, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi appealed on Sunday for the country’s youth to wake up and fight for their rights.
He claimed that the youth should have the primary claim to the country’s wealth and resources, rather than “people like Adani and Ambani”.
On the thirty-sixth day of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in this holy city of ‘Sangam’, Rahul Gandhi addressed a large crowd of people, the majority of whom were youth, and agreed with and shared their concerns, particularly about their future, career, and employment opportunities, which were shrinking.
Earlier, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi fired a new salvo at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Centre over Shri Ram Lalla’s ‘Pran Pratishtha’ event at Ayodhya’s Ram Temple, claiming that the OBCs, Dalits, and Backward Class people, who make up 73% of the country’s total population, were nowhere to be found during the mega event.
Gandhi was addressing a crowd during the ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh.
The Congress’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’, followed by the party’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, intends to span 6,700 kilometers through 15 states, with Lok Sabha elections just around the corner.