Announces 1300-km ‘Vote Adhikar Yatra’, building on the momentum from his voter fraud allegations against the BJP; The ‘yatra’ will pass through Aurangabad, Gaya, Nawada, Nalanda, Sheikhpura, Lakhisarai, Munger, Bhagalpur, Katihar, Purnea, Araria, Supaul, Madhubani, Darbhanga, Sitamarhi, East Champaran, West Champaran, Gopalganj, Siwan, Chapra
Rahul Gandhi
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will embark on a ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ across Bihar from Sasaram on Sunday, with his party asserting it will fight for the “one person, one vote” principle and not accept the Election Commission becoming a “compartment” of the BJP’s “so-called double engine”.
Gandhi made the announcement on X in Hindi. “16 days, 20 plus districts, over 1300 km. We are coming among the people with the Voter Adhikar Yatra. This is a fight to protect the most basic democratic right - ‘one person, one vote’.” — said the post. The leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, along with RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav and other Mahagathbandhan leaders, will undertake the 16-day and 1300-km-long yatra from Sasaram, which will conclude with a rally in Patna on September 1.
“Join us in Bihar to save the Constitution,” he added. The Congress party confirmed the announcement in a press conference at the Indira Bhawan in New Delhi, Congress’ media and publicity department head, Pawan Khera, said, “Whenever Rahul Gandhi ji has set out for a yatra, the democracy of this country has turned a page. ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ will be a historic march. It will prove to be a milestone in the history of our democracy.”
“We will not accept that the Election Commission becomes a compartment of this so-called ‘double engine’. We are fighting against this and will continue to do so in the future,” he added. The party has been protesting against the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, alleging the EC’s exercise is aimed at “disenfranchising voters” in Bihar ahead of the Assembly elections due later this year. The Congress urged the people of Bihar to join the ‘yatra’ for their rights and entitlements so that democracy can get a direction from Bihar.
“The yatra, starting in Bihar from August 17, is a journey to make people aware because the conspirators will not be deterred and they will try to steal votes,” Khera said. “The yatra will conclude with a huge rally in Patna on September 1, and the people of the INDIA bloc will participate in it,” he added. He added that the ‘yatra’ has been planned to fight for the right of ‘one person-one vote’. “It is possible to breathe freely in independent India because we have the power to vote. Rahul Gandhi has started a struggle so that every citizen of the country can breathe freely,” Khera said.
“The way the game of adding and deducting fake votes was going on, the BJP people have been caught red-handed,” he claimed, adding that “now, even ordinary citizens are giving evidence of vote theft. When our INDIA bloc colleagues and social workers appealed together, the Supreme Court also had to intervene.”
“This conspiracy was not just to snatch votes. It was a conspiracy to snatch your and our identity. Today, the right to vote is being snatched from the Dalits, the deprived, the oppressed, the exploited, the minorities; tomorrow their participation will be snatched,” Khera alleged, claiming a conspiracy was being hatched to attack the poor.
The ‘yatra’ will pass through Aurangabad, Gaya, Nawada, Nalanda, Sheikhpura, Lakhisarai, Munger, Bhagalpur, Katihar, Purnea, Araria, Supaul, Madhubani, Darbhanga, Sitamarhi, East Champaran, West Champaran, Gopalganj, Siwan, Chapra and Ara.
16
No of days for the yatra, which ends in Patna
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