BJY 2.0 expected to begin in in Jan first week from Northeast in hybrid form
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New Delhi: Party sources stated on Saturday that Congress intends to hold the second leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, which is anticipated to begin in the first week of January.
Congress officials claim that the first leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, headed by former party chief Rahul Gandhi and covering over 4,000 kilometres in five months from Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, to Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, was a huge success in uniting the party's supporters.
Thus the party has planned the second leg of the Yatra from January first week in 2024, which will also kick off the party's Lok Sabha campaign.
The source said that the second leg of the yatra is being planned for the first week of January.
The source said that this time the Bharat Jodo Yatra 2.0 will be in hybrid mode, which will include pad yatras and travel by bus.
The source said that the padyatra will pass through several cities and villages in west and north India.
He also said that the yatra will begin from the northeast and will go on for over two months.
The source said that the party leaders are working round the clock for the preparation and fine-tuning of the programme of the Bharat Jodo Yatra.
He said that there are several things that are going in the planning of the yatra looking at the hill and cold conditions of northeast India.
The source also said that during the yatra, there will be several nukkad and public meetings in cities and villages across the route.
Speaking to reporters following the security breach in the Parliament, Rahul Gandhi said, “Why did the breach happen in the Lok Sabha? Unemployment is the country’s biggest issue right now. Because of Modiji’s policies, India’s youth are unable to find jobs. The breach has happened for sure, but unemployment and inflation are the reasons behind it.”
The Bharat Jodo Yatra began on September 7 last year from Tamil Nadu's Kanyakumari and passed through the states of Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and union territories of Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir.
The yatra concluded in Srinagar on January 30. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi led the yatra from the front addressed several public meetings and also met several groups of societies during the yatra.
With inputs from IANS