Bharat Jodo Yatra

Bharat Jodo Yatra
DateSeptember 7, 2022 (2022-09-07) – January 30, 2023
Duration136 days
LocationIndia
TypePadayatra, protest
ThemePolitical movement, social movement
Organized byIndian National Congress, Rahul Gandhi
ParticipantsPoliticians, citizens, civil society organisations, political activists
Websitebharatjodoyatra.in

Bharat Jodo Yatra (lit. 'Unite India March') was a mass movement[1][2] which was held by the Indian National Congress ("the Congress" or INC as short form).[3] Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi orchestrated the movement by encouraging the party cadre and the public to walk from Kanyakumari at the southern tip of India to the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, a journey of 4,080 kilometres (2,540 miles) over almost 150 days.[4][5]

According to the INC, the movement was intended to unite the country against the "divisive politics"[6] of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led Government of India. The Bharat Jodo Yatra movement was launched by Rahul Gandhi and Tamil Nadu chief minister M. K. Stalin;[7] on September 7, 2022.[8] It was claimed that its main objective was to protest against the politics of "fear, bigotry and prejudice", and the economics of livelihood destruction, increasing unemployment and growing inequality.[8] During the movement, the INC elected a new party president and also won a majority in the 2022 Himachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly election, its first majority it won by itself since 2018.

  1. ^ "Bharat Jodo Yatra". The Times of India. 12 December 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Congress Launches Website Of 'Bharat Jodo Yatra', Bills It People's Movement". NDTV.com. Retrieved 31 January 2023.
  3. ^ "भारत जोड़ो यात्रा: राहुल गांधी क्या पूरे रास्ते पैदल चलेंगे?". BBC News हिंदी (in Hindi). 10 September 2022. Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  4. ^ "Rahul Gandhi skirts restoration of Article 370 as Congress's Bharat Jodo Yatra ends in Jammu and Kashmir". The Times of India. 30 January 2023.
  5. ^ "Rahul launches yatra: Tricolour under attack, BJP wants to divide country on religious lines". 7 September 2022.
  6. ^ Krishnan, Murali (3 October 2022). "India's divisive politics spill over to UK diaspora community". DW News. Retrieved 12 October 2022.
  7. ^ "Tamil Nadu CM Stalin to launch Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra on September 7". The Indian Express. 29 August 2022. Retrieved 13 September 2022.
  8. ^ a b "Bharat Jodo Yatra: All you need to know about Congress's Kanyakumari to Kashmir rally". The Indian Express. 6 September 2022. Retrieved 13 September 2022.