Edited by Deepali Verma
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ entered Kishanganj, Bihar amidst a sea of Congress supporters who could be seen chanting his name while holding flags of tricolours and the party. State Congress president Akhilesh Prasad Singh in company of the other senior party leaders welcomed Gandhi in Bihar.
In his address to the people of Kishangarh, Gandhi voiced the indispensability of caste consensus. The Congress leader said that the aim of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra is to bring economic and social justice to the country. “My appeal to all the people of Bihar is to take an active participation in bringing social justice in Bharat,” Gandhi said in his speech in Kishanganj.
This happens to be Rahul Gandhi’s first visit to Bihar since the assembly poll campaign of 2020. Mr Gandhi’s Bihar tour is placed a day after the Congress received a blow from its former ally Nitish Kumar, the Bihar chief minister, making a return to the BJP-led NDA.
Mr Gandhi is supposed to address a public meeting in Kishanganj along with a big rally in the adjoining district of Purnea on January 30 and another one in Katihar on January 31, as per the Congress legislature party leader Shakil Ahmed Khan.
Gandhi will then be leaving for West Bengal on February 1 via Araria district and will make his return to Bihar a few days later via Jharkhand, said state Congress president Akhilesh Prasad Singh.
As per the leaders of the state Congress, the party’s alliance partners in Bihar such as RJD president Lalu Prasad as well as CPI(ML)-L general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya have been invited to the rally at Purnea.
