"Rahul Gandhi's goal is not to "unite" country but...," Ramdas Athawale on 'Bharat Nyay Yatra'
Dec 27, 2023
New Delhi [India], December 27 : Hitting out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Nyay Yatra, Union Minister Ramdas Athawale said that Rahul Gandhi did the Bharat Jodo Yatra but his goal was not to "unite" the country but to "pull it apart."
This comes after Congress Secretary KC Venugopal on Wednesday announced that party leader Rahul Gandhi is all set to embark on a Bharat Nyay Yatra from January 14 to March 20 from Manipur to Mumbai.
"Rahul Gandhi did the Bharat Jodo Yatra but his goal was not to unite the country but to pull it apart since the Congress party has always played a role in pulling India apart," Athawale told ANI.
"Even after years of rule, they (Congress) didn't work to keep India together, and now Rahul Gandhi is up to do it," he added.
The Congress party said that the Bharat Nyay Yatra will cover 6,200 kilometres. It will traverse a route through the states of Manipur, Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and finally Maharashtra.
The Yatra will cover 14 states and 85 districts.
Congress leader and former Party president Rahul Gandhi will once again go on a Yatra -this time from East to West.
Earlier, the Bharat Jodo Yatra, which started in Kanyakumari on September 7, 2022, and was led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, concluded on January 30, 2023, in Srinagar after covering 3,970 km, 12 states, and two Union territories and having lasted more than 130 days.
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