Summary
Rahul Gandhi is set to release a 16-day ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ from Sasaram, Bihar, covering 1,300 km to Patna, intending to secure ballot rights. The Congress highlighted what it stated was a BJP conspiracy to disenfranchise marginalised neighborhoods through electoral roll modifications.
Senior Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi will on Sunday start his 16-day-long’ Voter Adhikar Yatra’from Sasaram in poll-bound Bihar.
The Yatra will cover 1,300 kilometres and will conclude with a mega rally in Patna on September 1, where leaders of numerous INDIA celebrations would participate in.
Sharing information of his Yatra in a post on X, Gandhi stated, “16 days. 20+ districts. 1,300+ kms. We are coming among the people with the Voter Rights Yatra.”
“This is the fight to protect the most fundamental democratic right – ‘one person, one vote.’ Join us in Bihar to save the Constitution,” Gandhi stated.
Celebration representative Pawan Khera informed press reporters that this Yatra will be yet another turning point in the democratic history of India.
“Whenever Rahul Gandhi has embarked upon such a march, democracy has turned a new page,” he stated, including that “The Yatra will be a historic journey, which will prove to be a milestone in the fight for the existence of all of us”
Providing information, he stated, besides Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Tejashwi Yadav, other partners of the INDIA bloc will likewise belong to the Yatra.
Khera declared that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls had actually exposed the BJP’s styles to disenfranchise lakhs of citizens coming from the Dalit, Adivasi and minority neighborhoods, the bad and day-to-day wagers.
He declared that it was a conspiracy to not just take the votes, however likewise take the identity.
“Today they will snatch the underprivileged people’s right to vote, tomorrow they will refuse them the share in government schemes like free food and housing,” he alerted, while declaring that the conspiracy was much deeper.
Training his weapons on the Election Commission (EC), Khera stated, the EC is ending up being like among the “train bogeys” of the so-called “double engine”asserting that it is not appropriate and the Congress will not let that occur.
“The Election Commission becoming just a compartment of this ‘double engine’ – this is something we will not accept. We are fighting against this and will continue to do so in the future.
“We advise individuals of Bihar that this is a journey for your rights and privileges. Join this journey so that democracy can discover instructions from Bihar,” he stated.
Khera stated that after individuals of Bihar, activists, and the Congress and INDIA bloc employees raised their voice versus the SIR, the EC was required to do a course correction.
He stated it was just after the intervention by the Supreme Court that the nationwide survey body was obliged to attend to the issues of typical individuals and citizens.
The ‘Voter Adhikar Yatra’ is targeted at guaranteeing awareness and awareness amongst the typical individuals so that the Modi federal government’s conspiracy to reject ballot rights to individuals of Bihar does not fructify, the Congress leader asserted.