Rahul Gandhi May Cover 10 Districts In Odisha During ‘Bharat Nyay Yatra’

Bhubaneswar: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi may cover 10 districts in Odisha during the ‘Bharat Nyay Yatra’, starting January 14, Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) president Sarat Pattanayak said before heading for New Delhi on Wednesday.

“Rahul Gandhi is likely travel from West Bengal to Bihar and then to Jharkhand and Odisha before heading towards Chhattisgarh. If he comes from Tata, he will travel from Balasore to Mayurbhanj. We will be proposing three routes, first through Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak, Cuttack, Bhubaneswar (Khurda), Ganjam, Koraput, Kalahandi, Nuapada and Balangir and the another directly via Sundargarh. It will depend on the time in hand and security situation,” he said.

The OPCC chief further said the party is on its mission to win 90 Assembly seats in 2024 election and will field candidates who had lost 2019 polls by a narrow margin and those with organisational strength.

Bharat Nyay Yatra follows Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’, which commenced on September 7, 2022, from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, and covered a distance of approximately 4,080 km before concluding in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, in January 2023. This 150-day-long Yatra will cover 14 states starting from Manipur in the northeast to Mumbai in Maharashtra and will include – Manipur, Nagaland, Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and finally Maharashtra.

Rahul will be covering three states, which Congress recently lost to BJP, during this Yatra and is also likely to spend nearly a week in politically-significant Gujarat and UP, according to reports.