Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ resumes in Chhattisgarh

The ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi resumed in Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh district on Sunday after a two-day break.

Gandhi laid a garland at the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at the Gandhi Chowk here and the pilgrimage was further carried out to the district’s Halsia parliamentary constituency.

A large crowd of Congress leaders and supporters gathered at the square, following Gandhi, who was traveling in an open jeep, accompanied by state Congress chief Sachin Pilot, state party president Deepak Dipak Baij and Opposition Leader Charan Das Mahant.

The massive outreach, which entered Raigarh from Odisha on Thursday, resumed on Sunday afternoon after a two-day break, a Congress worker said.

According to Congress leaders, the pilgrimage will boost the morale of party workers after the Congress suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the state assembly elections held in November last year.

Pilgrims enter the Lungalpalli checkpoint in Raigarh district on the Chhattisgarh-Odisha border on Thursday, where Gandhi addressed a public meeting.

Slamming the BJP, Gandhi claimed that the ruling party’s two-point plan encourages injustice and spreads hatred and violence.

He also targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, claiming that he was not an OBC by birth because his caste “ghanchi” was included in the list of Other Backward Classes in Gujarat by the then BJP government in 2000.

The pilgrimage will cover a total length of 536 km in Chhattisgarh, passing through Raigarh, Sakti, Korba, Surajpur, Surguja and Balrampur districts before entering Jharkhand on February 14.

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