What route is Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra covering?
Rahul Gandhi will kickstart his Manipur to Mumbai Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra from Thoubal near Imphal on Sunday.
Of about 100 Lok Sabha seats the Yatra would criss-cross, as per a tentative list The Indian Express has seen, as many as 58 are in the Hindi-speaking states such as Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar and Rajasthan. In UP alone, the Yatra would pass through 28 Lok Sabha segments, among them Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Varanasi constituency, Rae Bareli, Amethi, Allahabad, Phulpur and Lucknow.
The Yatra will spend the maximum number of days – 11 – in UP – the politically most-crucial state with 80 seats where the Congress has failed to make a mark in the last two Lok Sabha elections. Read more
Why NYAY?
The Congress party has revived Nyay -- the centrepiece promise of its 2019 manifesto. The party coined the term as a political slogan and also as a campaign promise five years ago but the pitch then found no resonance among the voters.
Addressing a rally kickstarting the Congress’s campaign for the elections on December 28 in Nagpur, party president Mallikarjun Kharge said the Congress, if voted to power, would implement the NYAY scheme under which women would be given “at least Rs 60,000-70,000” annually.
The idea to develop a basic income support scheme for India’s poorest was mooted in January 2019 by the then Congress president Rahul Gandhi. The party then developed the idea into a manifesto promise in consultation with the likes of Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, who roped in a few other renowned economists to give it a final shape. Read more
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