DAYS AFTER the Congress introduced that it could undertake a Bharat Jodo Yatra from October 2 this 12 months, the get together on Thursday signaled that it’s going to attain out to like-minded political forces and civil society teams to make the yatra broad primarily based, pegging it on points equivalent to assaults on Constitution, assault on secularism and sale of profit-making PSUs.
The get together is but to debate whether or not it ought to attain out to like-minded events as properly. For occasion, the DMK in Tamil Nadu from the place the yatra will start, and NCP or the Shiv Sena in Maharashtra which it is going to traverse.
Sources stated the get together will arrange a small group of leaders to coordinate and provides a ultimate form to the Kanyakumari to Kashmir yatra, the primary such political train by the grand previous get together in a long time.
A senior Congress chief stated the get together will discuss to “like-minded political forces, institutions and individuals” to broad base the yatra. The political forces, he stated, will be “quasi parties, fronts and groups”. Asked about different opposition events, the chief stated, “The party is yet to discuss whether it should talk to like-minded parties.”
Some of the opposition events, together with allies RJD, JMM and Shiv Sena, have been upset with former Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s latest assertion that his get together alone can struggle the BJP as regional events neither have an ideology nor a centralized strategy. Sources within the Congress, nevertheless, sought to minimize the controversy, saying such “reactions were expected”.
“We will cooperate with regional events wherever obligatory… the place we’re weak. But that doesn’t imply we’ll take VRS even in these states,” one chief stated.
At the Udaipur Chintan Shivir, the get together had determined that it could “establish extensive contact and dialogue with all social, cultural, non-governmental organisations, trade unions, think tanks and civil society groups” to tackle the BJP. “In order to protect this spirit of nationalism and democracy, the Congress is determined to establish dialogue and contact with all like-minded parties and will keep the avenues open for forming pragmatic alliances according to the political situation, while ensuring the organisation’s strength, capability , and presence in all blocks and districts of the country,” the decision had stated.
The yatra, to be led by Rahul, is anticipated to go on for 4 to 5 months because the intention is to traverse 3,500-odd kilometers throughout a dozen-odd states.
“When the UPA authorities was in energy… we had an institutional mechanism to interact with the NGOs within the type of the National Advisory Council. Many of the right-based laws emanated from the NAC. We will attempt to join with the civil society teams once more,” a pacesetter stated.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
