THOUBAL, Jan 14: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Sunday launched into the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra from right here in Manipur with a promise to convey peace and concord within the ethnic violence-hit state.
The violence that broke out within the northeastern state in Could final 12 months has claimed greater than 180 lives and rendered hundreds homeless.
Addressing a public assembly in Thoubal, which is south of Manipur capital Imphal, Gandhi additionally hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying maybe for the BJP and the RSS, Manipur was not part of India.
“Lakhs of individuals confronted losses, however the prime minister has not come right here to wipe your tears, maintain your hand or embrace you. Perhaps for Narendra Modi, the BJP and the RSS, Manipur will not be part of India. Your ache will not be their ache,” Gandhi stated.
“We perceive the ache that the folks of Manipur have been via, we perceive the harm, the unhappiness. We’ll convey again concord, peace and affection for which this state was recognized,” he stated.
The yatra will cowl a distance of 6,713 km, straddling 100 Lok Sabha constituencies and 337 meeting segments and overlaying 110 districts. It should conclude in Mumbai on March 20 after 67 days.
Earlier, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge additionally slammed the prime minister, saying that he got here to the northeastern state solely to hunt votes and to not share the grief when the folks of the state are in ache.
“Modi has time to drive by the ocean, take a dip within the sea however has not come to Manipur. Modi retains chanting ‘Ram, Ram’, however he mustn’t do it to hunt votes. The BJP mixes faith and politics, and incites folks,” he stated on the launch of the yatra.
“The BJP has ‘Ram’ on its lips however carries a knife by their aspect. They need to not have such an strategy in direction of folks,” the Congress president stated.
Kharge stated the Congress stood for social justice, secularism and fairness. Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra is being undertaken to save lots of the Structure and democracy, and struggle the fascist forces, he stated.
The Congress president stated he was proud {that a} chief of his occasion was transferring from door-to-door to unfold the message of peace.
Earlier, Kharge unveiled the bus on which Gandhi and different Congress leaders will journey from Manipur to Mumbai as a part of the yatra. (Companies)
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