At a briefing on the deliberations of the first meeting of the reconstituted Congress Working Committee (CWC), senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said members of the party’s top decision-making body have requested that the second edition of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, titled Bharat Jodo Yatra 2.0, be undertaken from the eastern part of the country to the west.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi had undertaken the first edition of the yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir from September 7, 2022, to January 30 this year. The march saw participation from a cross-section of society, including film and TV celebrities, writers, and military veterans, as well as noted people such as former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan and ex-finance secretary Arvind Mayaram.
Opposition leaders such as National Conference’s Farooq Abdullah and Omar Abdullah, PDP’s Mehbooba Mufti, Shiv Sena’s Aaditya Thackeray, Priyanka Chaturvedi and Sanjay Raut and NCP’s Supriya Sule had also walked alongside Gandhi at various points in time during the march. Chidambaram said the matter is “under consideration” in response to a question about organising the second edition of the Bharat Jodo Yatra.
