The 62-day Bharat Jodo Nyay yatra concluded on Saturday. The difference between the two Bharat Jodo Yatras was not only that of the mechanics — one on the foot and the other mostly by bus. From nebulous commitments of love and harmony made in the first centred around the slogan Nafrat Ke Bazaar Main Mohabbat Ki Dukaan (to open a shop of love in a market of hate) the second one came up with concrete assurances in the form of five nyays that form the very crux of the Congress’s poll campaign.
The Nyay yatra’s course has been particularly rocky, meeting with setbacks every step of the way. On the very day that the yatra opened on January 14 from Thoubal in Manipur, Congress leader in Mumbai Milind Deora ended his family’s 55-year-old ties with the party to join the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena.
Editorial | Distant goal: On Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra
