New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will kickstart his second large-scale outreach programme ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ from ethnic strife-torn Manipur’s Thoubal district today. The yatra will begin at noon from the Khongjom War Memorial. It will cover a distance of 6,713 km, straddling 100 Lok Sabha constituencies and 337 assembly segments and covering 110 districts. The yatra will conclude in Mumbai on March 20 after a span of 67 days.
A follow-up to the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ which saw Rahul Gandhi cover more than 3,000 kilometres on foot – from Kanya Kumari to Srinagar, the latest campaign, Bharat Jodo Yatra 2.0, is expected to involve extensive bus rides by the Congress leader.
The Manipur government has imposed restrictions on the flagging off programme of Congress’ Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Thoubal district on January 14 stating that the programme should not exceed an hour and the number of participants be a maximum 3000.
The permission was issued by the office of Thoubal deputy commissioner on January 11 and was shared by the party with the reporters here on Saturday, a day ahead of the yatra.
The permission said the programme should not exceed an hour as the venue is just beside and along the national highway and traffic has to be diverted to alternate routes, it said.
Also the number of participants should be restricted to a “manageable limit” of maximium 3000 persons, it said.
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