Following a two-day hiatus, the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra is scheduled to continue on January 28. According to a PTI report, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi will re-join the Nyay Yatra on Sunday in the Jalpaiguri region of West Bengal. On the other hand, the Congress Nyay Yatra has been refused permission by the West Bengal Police to hold a public gathering in Siliguri.
The development coincides with rumors of a split between the Grand Old Party and Mamata Banerjee, the leader of Bengal’s ruling party and ally of the INDIA group, the Trinamool Congress (TMC).
A top Congress official claims that Gandhi’s Sunday presentation at Falakata in Alipurduar is also clouded with doubt.
On January 28, two exams—one of which is a police recruitment test—are planned. Loudspeaker playback is not permitted. These tests were arranged a long time before,” C. Sudhakar, Siliguri’s chief police officer,
The Nyay Yatra began on January 14 in Manipur and traveled through Assam on Thursday morning before entering the West Bengal region of Cooch Behar.
On January 25, Gandhi held a roadshow at Coochbehar and then took a two-day break from the Yatra before leaving for New Delhi.
“At 11:30 a.m., Rahul Gandhi Ji will land at the Bagdogra airport. He will then travel to Jalpaiguri, where the yatra will resume. This time, the Yatra would go both on foot and by bus, with a planned overnight halt on Sunday night close to Siliguri, “state Congress leader Suvankar Sarkar informed PTI.
According to Sarkar, the Yatra is scheduled to begin on January 29 and travel to Islampur in the Uttar Dinajpur district before entering Bihar in the afternoon.
The itinerary calls for the Nyay Yatra to return to West Bengal on January 31 by way of Malda, passing through both Murshidabad and other well-known Congress strongholds, before departing the state on February 1.
Gandhi and the Yatra posters, according to the Congress, were torn apart in Jalpaiguri.
As the ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ approaches, West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury expressed worries on Friday about the challenges he has been facing in getting permission to hold specific public events in the state.
Claiming that Chowdhury was repeating the rhetoric of the Bharatiya Janata Party, the ruling Trinamool Congress dismissed the accusations as baseless.
Following Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee’s declaration that the party will run independently in the next Lok Sabha elections rather than as a member of the opposition group INDIA, the Yatra in West Bengal got underway.
The Congress was singled out by the TMC for the deadlock around seat-sharing.
Gandhi is making his first trip to the state since the assembly elections in 2021.
It is projected that the Nyay Yatra will cover 6,713 kilometers in 67 days, passing through 110 districts in 15 states and ending in Mumbai on March 20 or 21.