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The yatras political events took out in a bid to win over electorate

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KANYAKUMARI: With Rahul Gandhi in conjunction with a number of Congress leaders embarking on a three,570-km Kanyakumari to Kashmir ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra,’ here’s a have a look at some key yatras undertaken in unbiased India and the way they fared in remodeling the fortunes of events and leaders.

The ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ is being billed as Congress’s largest mass touch programme since independence and a “turning level” in India’s political historical past.

The Congress has additionally stated this is a “transformational second” for Indian politics and a “decisive second” for the birthday party’s rejuvenation.

Rahul Gandhi isn’t new to the ‘yatra bandwagon’ and has taken phase in marches sooner than similar to for the farmers’ purpose in Bhatta Parsaul, and a couple of different temporary yatras, however by no means has he undertaken this sort of adventure at this scale.

Listed here are one of the most political yatras in conjunction with their hits and misses in the case of their affect:

1983, Chandra Shekhar’s Bharat Yatra: Just about 4 many years in the past, former high minister after which Janata Birthday party chief embarked upon a padyatra from Kanyakumari, from the place the Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra additionally started this morning.

Monikers such because the ‘Marathon guy’ got to Chandra Shekhar when six months after he started on January 6, 1983, the yatra reached New Delhi.

His stature and the traction to the yatra went on emerging as he handed village after village all over his yatra for connecting with the folk.

Regardless that observers regard the padayatra as in large part a luck, dramatic political tendencies like Indira Gandhi’s assassination diluted its affect within the 1984 elections, that have been swept through Rajiv Gandhi.

1985 Congress Sandesh Yatra through the then high minister and Congress president Rajiv Gandhi on the AICC plenary in Mumbai. The All India Congress Seva Dal carried it out throughout India.

PCCs and Congress leaders performed the yatra as 4 simultaneous trips from Mumbai, Kashmir, Kanyakumari and the Northeast. The yatra concluded at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan in over 3 months.

1990 Rath Yatra led through Lal Krishna Advani: The Rath yatra used to be taken out to provide momentum to the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. The yatra that began in September 1990 used to be to hide 10,000 km and culminate in Ayodhya on October 30. It used to be halted in Samastipur in north Bihar and Advani used to be arrested. Political analysts really feel the Rath Yatra gave a fillip to the BJP’s electoral and ideological achieve. Because the call for for the temple won momentum, the BJP’s electoral fortunes additionally soared prime.

1991 Ekta Yatra: This yatra used to be led through then BJP president Murli Manohar Joshi and sought to focus on the BJP’s enhance to nationwide team spirit and its opposition to separatist actions. It all started in December in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu and lined 14 states. It used to be noticed as a follow-up to Advani’s Rath Yatra to additional spice up BJP’s electoral fortunes. The yatra culminated with Joshi getting airlifted to Srinagar and unfurling the nationwide flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on January 26, 1992. In step with political analysts, it used to be thought to be to have minimum luck as now not many locals participated.

The Ekta Yatra used to be replicated through the birthday party in 2011 when it held a 14-day yatra from Kolkata to Kashmir’s Lal Chowk to unfurl the nationwide flag within the Valley.

Congress chief Y S Rajasekhar Reddy had undertaken a 1,400-km padyatra in April 2003. He led the Congress to a convincing victory a yr later, defeating the incumbent Chandrababu Naidu-led Telugu Desam Birthday party (TDP).

2004 BJP’s Bharat Uday Yatra: Advani’s Bharat Uday Yatra highlighted India’s achievements underneath the six-year reign of then high minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. It didn’t pay the anticipated electoral dividend because the BJP suffered defeat in Lok Sabha polls and the UPA-I come to energy.

2017 yatra through YSRCP leader Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy: Within the run-up to the April 2019 Andhra Pradesh meeting elections, YSRCP leader Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy undertook an enormous Praja Sankalpa Yatra beginning in 2017, masking over 3,500 km through foot around the state.

2017 Narmada Parikrama Yatra: Senior Congress chief Digvijaya Singh undertook the ‘Narmada Parikrama’ from the Barman ghat in Narsinghpur district, located at the banks of the Narmada.

Regardless that Singh maintained that the three,000-plus-km Narmada Parikarma used to be fully a non secular workout, many observers stated its political implications have been glaring and it contributed to the luck of the birthday party in 2019 meeting polls in Madhya Pradesh.

August 2021, BJP’s Jan Ashirwad Yatra: The BJP introduced a five-day Jan Ashirwad Yatra final yr as a part of which 39 Union ministers have been despatched to hide 22 states.

The ministers undertook the Jan Ashirwad Yatras to hide 212 Lok Sabha constituencies and shuttle over 19,567 km to succeed in out to folks and inform them concerning the govt’s achievements.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, in conjunction with a number of birthday party leaders, embarked at the Bharat Jodo Yatra from right here on Thursday, marking the start of a difficult adventure by which the birthday party is looking for to succeed in out to folks and rejuvenate its organisation.

KANYAKUMARI: With Rahul Gandhi in conjunction with a number of Congress leaders embarking on a three,570-km Kanyakumari to Kashmir ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra,’ here’s a have a look at some key yatras undertaken in unbiased India and the way they fared in remodeling the fortunes of events and leaders.

The ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ is being billed as Congress’s largest mass touch programme since independence and a “turning level” in India’s political historical past.

The Congress has additionally stated this is a “transformational second” for Indian politics and a “decisive second” for the birthday party’s rejuvenation.

Rahul Gandhi isn’t new to the ‘yatra bandwagon’ and has taken phase in marches sooner than similar to for the farmers’ purpose in Bhatta Parsaul, and a couple of different temporary yatras, however by no means has he undertaken this sort of adventure at this scale.

Listed here are one of the most political yatras in conjunction with their hits and misses in the case of their affect:

1983, Chandra Shekhar’s Bharat Yatra: Just about 4 many years in the past, former high minister after which Janata Birthday party chief embarked upon a padyatra from Kanyakumari, from the place the Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra additionally started this morning.

Monikers such because the ‘Marathon guy’ got to Chandra Shekhar when six months after he started on January 6, 1983, the yatra reached New Delhi.

His stature and the traction to the yatra went on emerging as he handed village after village all over his yatra for connecting with the folk.

Regardless that observers regard the padayatra as in large part a luck, dramatic political tendencies like Indira Gandhi’s assassination diluted its affect within the 1984 elections, that have been swept through Rajiv Gandhi.

1985 Congress Sandesh Yatra through the then high minister and Congress president Rajiv Gandhi on the AICC plenary in Mumbai. The All India Congress Seva Dal carried it out throughout India.

PCCs and Congress leaders performed the yatra as 4 simultaneous trips from Mumbai, Kashmir, Kanyakumari and the Northeast. The yatra concluded at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan in over 3 months.

1990 Rath Yatra led through Lal Krishna Advani: The Rath yatra used to be taken out to provide momentum to the Ram Temple in Ayodhya. The yatra that began in September 1990 used to be to hide 10,000 km and culminate in Ayodhya on October 30. It used to be halted in Samastipur in north Bihar and Advani used to be arrested. Political analysts really feel the Rath Yatra gave a fillip to the BJP’s electoral and ideological achieve. Because the call for for the temple won momentum, the BJP’s electoral fortunes additionally soared prime.

1991 Ekta Yatra: This yatra used to be led through then BJP president Murli Manohar Joshi and sought to focus on the BJP’s enhance to nationwide team spirit and its opposition to separatist actions. It all started in December in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu and lined 14 states. It used to be noticed as a follow-up to Advani’s Rath Yatra to additional spice up BJP’s electoral fortunes. The yatra culminated with Joshi getting airlifted to Srinagar and unfurling the nationwide flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar on January 26, 1992. In step with political analysts, it used to be thought to be to have minimum luck as now not many locals participated.

The Ekta Yatra used to be replicated through the birthday party in 2011 when it held a 14-day yatra from Kolkata to Kashmir’s Lal Chowk to unfurl the nationwide flag within the Valley.

Congress chief Y S Rajasekhar Reddy had undertaken a 1,400-km padyatra in April 2003. He led the Congress to a convincing victory a yr later, defeating the incumbent Chandrababu Naidu-led Telugu Desam Birthday party (TDP).

2004 BJP’s Bharat Uday Yatra: Advani’s Bharat Uday Yatra highlighted India’s achievements underneath the six-year reign of then high minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. It didn’t pay the anticipated electoral dividend because the BJP suffered defeat in Lok Sabha polls and the UPA-I come to energy.

2017 yatra through YSRCP leader Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy: Within the run-up to the April 2019 Andhra Pradesh meeting elections, YSRCP leader Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy undertook an enormous Praja Sankalpa Yatra beginning in 2017, masking over 3,500 km through foot around the state.

2017 Narmada Parikrama Yatra: Senior Congress chief Digvijaya Singh undertook the ‘Narmada Parikrama’ from the Barman ghat in Narsinghpur district, located at the banks of the Narmada.

Regardless that Singh maintained that the three,000-plus-km Narmada Parikarma used to be fully a non secular workout, many observers stated its political implications have been glaring and it contributed to the luck of the birthday party in 2019 meeting polls in Madhya Pradesh.

August 2021, BJP’s Jan Ashirwad Yatra: The BJP introduced a five-day Jan Ashirwad Yatra final yr as a part of which 39 Union ministers have been despatched to hide 22 states.

The ministers undertook the Jan Ashirwad Yatras to hide 212 Lok Sabha constituencies and shuttle over 19,567 km to succeed in out to folks and inform them concerning the govt’s achievements.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, in conjunction with a number of birthday party leaders, embarked at the Bharat Jodo Yatra from right here on Thursday, marking the start of a difficult adventure by which the birthday party is looking for to succeed in out to folks and rejuvenate its organisation.