01 March,2024 01:41 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra will reach Maharashtra's Nandurbar district from Gujarat on March 10, local functionaries of the party said on Friday, reported news agency PTI.
The yatra will travel from Nandurbar to Dhule, Malegaon and Nashik, where Gandhi will offer prayers at the famous Kalaram temple dedicated to Lord Ram and at the Trimbakeshwar temple dedicated to Lord Shiva, they said, reported PTI.
The former Congress president will then address a rally at Bhiwandi in Thane district and the yatra will then proceed to Mumbai for the concluding public rally, which is likely to be held on March 13 or 14, the functionaries added, reported PTI.
The party earlier announced that the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra would be on a break from February 26 to March 1 to enable Rahul Gandhi deliver two special lectures at his alma mater, Cambridge University, and attend important meetings in New Delhi. It will resume on March 2 from Rajasthan's Dholpur and enter Madhya Pradesh on the same day.
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The east-to-west Manipur-Mumbai Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra is scheduled to traverse 6,700 kilometres through 15 states. It aims at highlighting the message of "nyay (justice)" while meeting common people on the way.
Meanwhile, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said, while announcing a statewide protest by party workers against the law and order situation, the truth of the double engine government in Uttar Pradesh is that it is a "guarantee of jungle raj".
"The law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh is the biggest example of how the BJP and Modi media together are indulging in the 'business of lies'," he alleged in a post in Hindi on X.
Highlighting several recent cases of crimes against women, he said the bodies of minor sisters are found hanging from trees at some places.
"Somewhere the audacity of gang rape by BJP members in IIT-BHU campus, and somewhere a woman judge was forced to commit suicide for not getting justice.
"This is the condition of that state whose law and order system is being praised tirelessly," Gandhi said.
He also mentioned the recent murder of a Dalit student returning after giving her Class 10 exams in Rampur.
(With inputs from PTI)
