CHANDIGARH: The Bharat Jodo Yatra, which the Congress had decided to start from October 2 between Kashmir to KanyaKumari, may be advanced, “given the repeated and intensifying attacks on democracy, country’s Constitution, the nation’s institutions and the social fabric of society by the Modi Sarkar and the BJP”.
Disclosing this here today, the Punjab Congress president, Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, who attended a meeting of state presidents of the and frontal organizations in New Delhi with AICC office-bearers today, said, earlier the yatra was to start from October 2, 2022as announced in the ‘Nav Sankalp’ in the Udaipur Chintan Shivir.
He said, the Bharat Jodo Yatra will cover a distance of around 3500 kms and go through about 12 states and 2 Union Territories. It will be a padayatra throughout. The entire leadership and cadre of the Congress party will participate in the Yatra. Many other yatras will join the main padayatra from across the length and breadth of the country.
“After 75 years of independence, the Indian National Congress pays rich tributes to all those who fought for India’s freedom, those who defeated the politics of divide and rule, those who came together to give the country its great Constitution, and those who put India on the path of progress, prosperity, social justice and harmony”, Warring said.
He said, today, as the politics of hate is being practiced by those who never took part in our country’s freedom movement, and whose ideologies resulted in the assassination of the Father of the Nation, the Bharat Jodo Yatra is being launched as a nation-wide movement to unite, every Indian who is committed to the protection, preservation and promotion of the values anchored in our country’s freedom movement, led by Mahatma Gandhi.
“It will unite every Indian who is dedicated to fighting the politics of hatred, bigotry and polarization and who believes that instead of divisive politics, the focus of governance should be on providing productive jobs to crores of youth, easing the burden on crores of our families of the intolerable price rise of essential commodities, ensuring the welfare and well-being of kisans and khet mazdoors, and protecting our Jal, Jangal and Zameen for securing livelihoods and dignity for crores of Adivasis, Dalits, and other weaker sections of society”, the PCC president added.
