Rahul Gandhi to Visit Odisha During His ‘Bharat Nyay Yatra’ from Manipur to Mumbai

Bhubaneswar: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visit Odisha during his 6,200 km ‘Bharat Nyay Yatra’ from Imphal in Manipur to Mumbai. This yatra will start from Manipur on January 14 to pass through 85 districts in 14 states, including Odisha, to culminate in Mumbai on March 20.

Addressing a press conference here at the party headquarters, Congress General Secretary (organisation) K.C. Venugopal and general secretary in charge of communications Jairam Ramesh informed that the yatra will be flagged off by the Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge from Imphal on January 14.

Earlier taking up the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, Rahul Gandhi covered about 4,000 km from Kanyakumari to Kashmir passing through 12 states.

Unlike the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in which Rahul Gandhi walked, in the recent ‘yatra’, he will travel by bus with off-and-on walking stretches.

He said that the Nyay Yatra will cover the states of Manipur, Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra.