Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will hold a meeting with the party's state unit leaders on Thursday (January 4) to finalise the route of the Rahul Gandhi-helmed Bharat Nyay Yatra which will begin in Imphal, Manipur on January 14.
According to a senior Congress leader, the meeting, which will be attended by PCC presidents, CLP leaders, general secretaries and AICC in-charges of all the states and not just the ones through which the yatra will pass, will also discuss preparation for the Lok Sabha elections.
The party will release the logo and the tagline for the east-to-west yatra, which is being viewed as Part II of the Bharat Jodo Yatra that was undertaken by Gandhi from Kanyakumari to Kashmir earlier, on Thursday.
On January 8, the route of the yatra, which will cover a distance of around 6,200km over a period of 55 days, going through 14 states and culminating in Mumbai on March 20, will be unveiled.
The upcoming yatra will be different from the earlier one as it will not be a padayatra, but will be mainly undertaken on a bus. There will be short bursts of padayatra every day that will cover around six to seven km. Around 120 km will be covered in the yatra every day. Besides, public meetings will be held down the route.
Like Bharat Jodo Yatra, in the upcoming yatra too, Gandhi will interact with different groups of people, including women, youth, and farmers. These meetings will take place in the bus during the course of the yatra.
Explaining the reason behind the name Bharat Nyay Yatra, the Congress leader said the term 'nyay', which means justice, has been derived from the preamble of the Constitution, and the yatra will focus on issues of social justice, economic justice and political justice.
INDIA allies will be invited to join the yatra, the leader said. He said even during the Bharat Jodo Yatra, many opposition leaders had walked alongside Gandhi.