Bharat Nyay Yatra schedule: Rahul Gandhi likely to spend a week each in Gujarat and UP: Report

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Hindustan Times. According to two leaders who are involved in the planning the march, requesting anonymity told HT that Gandhi may spend almost a week in each of these states during the yatra. “Both UP and Gujarat will be given prominence during the yatra.

The Bharat Jodo Yatra didn’t touch Gujarat and spent just three days in UP. This time, we might spend 6-7 days both in UP and Gujarat," one of them told HT. “In the Bharat Jodo Yatra, we had to skip Gujarat purely for logistical issues as the yatra would have gone longer. This time, Rahul Gandhi might travel extensively in Gujarat, which would be covered before the yatra enters Maharashtra," another Congress leader on anonymity told the daily.

The Bharat Nyay Yatra came after as Rahul Gandhi received tremendous support for its ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ which Rahul Gandhi started in September 2022 from Kanyakumari to Kashmir. Currently, the party holds two seat in Uttar Pradesh while in Gujarat the party have 17 seats. The Bharat Nyay Yatra will also cover the three states Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh where the party recently lost the elections to the BJP.

Though the final schedule is not out yet, the 150-day-long Yatra will cover 14 states starting from Manipur in the northeast to Mumbai in Maharashtra and will include - Manipur, Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, UP, MP, Rajasthan, Gujarat and finally Maharashtra. Meanwhile, the party is set to hold a meeting of the party's state unit chiefs and legislative party leaders on 4 January in the national capital to discuss preparations for the Lok Sabha polls and ‘Bharat Nyay Yatra’. The meeting will be chaired by Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge in the national