With just 16 months left for the general elections, Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra will decide whether India’s divided opposition will be able to put an end to the era of BJP led by PM Modi.
What will Rahul Gandhi be able to achieve in 2023?
congress leader Rahul Gandhi Have set out to unite the country. The Bharat Jodo Yatra which started from Kanyakumari has reached Haryana after passing through many states crossing Delhi, Uttar Pradesh. The yatra will end in Jammu and Kashmir. Rahul Gandhi may not speak clearly, but his visit has political objectives.
This year, there are elections in nine states of the country, including three important states of the Hindi heartland, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. This is a big opportunity for the Congress to increase its score from 3 to a little more in a country with 31 states. And it will also have the effect of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his Bharat Jode Yatra. How much will happen, only time will tell.
However, the Congress has been in power for two-thirds of the country’s 75-year-long democratic journey, but at present the Congress has only 53 MPs in the 543-member Lok Sabha, which is very less as compared to the BJP’s 303 MPs. General elections are going to be held in 2024 and political experts say that the main target of Rahul and his Bharat Jodo Yatra is the same.
Outspoken on issues like inflation, unemployment
Congress, the party which gave direction to Indian politics for many decades, is today struggling to infuse new life into the party. There is a need to infuse a new energy in the Congress workers as well. For this, the party also expects some ‘miracle’ from the Bharat Jodo Yatra.
During his visit, Rahul Gandhi is looking vocal on issues like inflation and unemployment in the country. Deutsche Welle has written in its report that by raising such issues, the Congress not only wants to regain its lost political ground, but also wants to establish Rahul Gandhi as a mass leader.
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Prof. Madhulika Banerjee (Professor at London School of Economics), who has participated in this journey of Rahul Gandhi, writes in Britain’s prestigious newspaper The Guardian, “This whole campaign of Rahul was like a huge military campaign of a non-violent army. People from different linguistic communities and backgrounds are joining it. We have also seen such pictures continuously. Based on his experience, Prof. Banerjee describes it as a mini India march.
humble and sharp minded image
Prof. Madhulika Banerjee says that while walking in this march, she found Rahul Gandhi to be a very humble and sharp minded person. It was possible to challenge him and disagree with him, which has not been possible with many Indian leaders. Especially with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, because he doesn’t even hold a press conference. She says that in PM Modi’s meetings, people see glory, while Rahul Gandhi’s pictures with common people create a good political image of him.
Sameer Yasir in The New York Times writes that with just 16 months to go for the general elections, Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra ensures that India’s divided opposition will be able to put an end to the era of BJP led by PM Modi Or not.
There have been three Prime Ministers of the country from the Gandhi-Nehru family, whose total tenure has been about 4 decades, but under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi, the Congress has been continuously defeated from the assembly to the Lok Sabha elections. Rahul’s previous innings has proved to be a failure. Now it has to be seen how successful he is in his second innings.
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