Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge. File
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Describing the Bharat Jodo Yatra as a folks’s motion, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on September 7 mentioned the foot march was not just a physical endeavour but a honest effort to “rebuild our broken collective conscience”.
On the first anniversary of the party’s Kanyakumari to Kashmir Bharat Jodo Yatra, he mentioned it continues to battle the menace of hate and hostility within the society by way of a dialog.
“The Bharat Jodo Yatra is not just a physical endeavour, it is a sincere effort to rebuild our broken collective conscience. Our ingrained values of justice, liberty equality, and fraternity, for us, are supreme,” Mr. Kharge mentioned in a press release posted on X.
“The Congress party is continuously reaching out to people in an endeavour to reclaim our Constitution and protect our Democracy,” he mentioned.
On at the present time in 2022, the Congress launched the yatra in Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, the southern tip of the nation.
“The trend of manufacturing irrelevant headlines to divert attention from the real issues of people to hide the agenda of hate and division is a systemic attack on our collective conscience,” Mr. Kharge mentioned.
He asserted that the yatra “seeks to bring real issues of economic inequalities, price rise, unemployment, social injustices, subversion of Constitution, centralisation of power, to the centre stage of people’s imagination”. The Bharat Jodo Yatra is “a people’s movement, unequalled in history,” Mr. Kharge mentioned.
“As the yatra completes one year today, on behalf of the Indian National Congress, I congratulate Rahul Gandhi, all Bharat Yatris and the lakhs of our citizens who walked and joined in this historic endeavour,” he mentioned.
“From Kanyakumari to Kashmir, the Bharat Jodo Yatra covered more than 4,000 km and carried a message of unity in diversity, with lakhs of people from all walks of life,” the Congress chief mentioned.