On 14 Jan, Rahul Gandhi embarked on an East-to-West Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra (India Unity & Justice March) from violence-hit Manipur. He is undertaking this two-month-long march on a customized bus. The march will traverse through 100 Lok Sabha segments and the party believes it will prove to be as transformative as Gandhi’s earlier cross-country march in 2022. He will be covering 6,700 kilometers in 67 days across 15 states. Last time, one of the main reasons for the march was that mainstream media had stopped covering the INC. The popularity of the earlier march forced the media to cover the party’s activities. This time it will be interesting to watch how the media behaves as the Ram Mandir consecration has launched the BJP’s campaign for 2024 general elections. As the yatra commenced, Sikh leaders from BJP targeted the INC over the 1984 genocide. Chairperson of the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) Iqbal Singh Lalpura said, after the PM Modi-led government came to power, files related to compensation and delivering justice to the victims have started moving fast. ‘While the special investigation team (SIT) is doing the job of bringing justice to the families of the victims, we will give them compensation which they truly deserve.’ Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said, ‘I want to ask Rahul Gandhi if he has contemplated justice for the victims of our community who suffered in 1984. Has he visited and offered apologies to the affected people?’
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