New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday said the upcoming ‘Bharat Nyay Yatra’ which will be led by its party leader Rahul Gandhi will be now called as ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay yatra’ and it will cover 110 districts spread across 15 states.
The grand old party also said that the yatra which will begin from January 14 in Manipur’s Imphal, will also cover Arunachal Pradesh.
The decision in this regard was taken at a meeting convened by Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge , along with Gandhi, with the party’s state presidents and CLP leaders at the party headquarters here.
During the meeting, which lasted for almost three hours, they also discussed at length about the preparations of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters, Congress general secretary in-charge of communications Jairam Ramesh said, “The discussion today was with the Congress PCC presidents and CLP leaders. There were two items on the agenda. One, the preparations for the Lok Sabha elections, and the finalisation of the route for the yatra that was announced that Rahul Gandhi would lead, beginning on January 14 from Manipur.”
He informed that all the members who attended the meeting and the Congress president were of the unanimous view that the success of the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ had got embedded in the minds of the people and the party should not lose the value of it.
Agencies