The Voter Adhikar Yatra started in Sasaram in the Rohtas district and is currently on it’s third leg, which has already covered 15 districts. It has become a significant crowd-puller. Rahul Gandhi, the head of the Congress, and Tejashwi Yadav, the leader of the Rashtra Janata Dal (RJD), have been attracting sizable crowds and getting thunderous ovation everywhere they go.
Thousands of impoverished, disadvantaged, and backwards individuals welcome the leaders wherever the procession goes. Many of them join in big numbers just to see them once. Under the blazing hear, a crowd of young people, old people, and children gathered along the highway around 2:00 pm in hopes of seeing Gandhi and his sister, priyanka Gandhi Vadra.
From Makhana fields to Vote Chori
Rahul Gandhi wearing his pants pulled up, went into a flooding field in Katihar, Bihar. He bent down to pick Makhana pods out of the murky water. Around him, farmers showed off the laborious fix nut cultivation procedure. It is nearly exclusively carried out by poor riverine villages.
It was no coincidence that the event was packed with optics. Rahul’s 16-day, 1,300 kilometre Voter Adhikar Yatra across the cities and villages of Bihar is more than simply a political theatrical stunts. The Congress leader, who is currently the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, is making his most serious attempt to regain control of a state that his party used to run without opposition. But it has since given up nearly all of.
A Party in the reinvention process
Additionally, the Congress uses the yatra as a platform for internal reorientation. A deliberate move towards the social base that had previously abandoned the party. It was indicated in March when Rajesh Kumar, a Dalit Politician from the Ravidas clan succeeded state chief Akhilesh Singh, an upper caste mainstay. The increased emphasis on Dalits (EBCs) is personified by Kumar. He travels with Rahul on the yatra. By offering free medical treatment worth Rs 25 lakh for each inhabitant, distributing sanitary pads, and hosting job fairs, the party has also borrowed from its partners.
By making these efforts, the Congress is attempting to re-establish its independent credentials rather than just riding along with the RJD. It has the potential to change the alliance maths if it can increase its assembly count from 19 to 30 or above this election. Such gains would be crucial in a state where 12 seats previously determined success.
Rahul Gandhi Addressing Voter Adhikar Yatra
During his Voter Adhikar Yatra, the Congress MP spoke to a crowd in Sithamarhi and said that the BJP was “stealing votes”. Stealing from the underprivileged in order to “supress” their voice. Gandhi urged the INDIA block to “never” let them to silence the voices of the impoverished and disenfranchised while extending his support.
Rahul Gandhi said, “We know that they are trying to steal the elections in Bihar. That is why we have started the Voter Adhikar Yatra here. So that these people and the Election Commissioner can know that the people of Bihar are smart, cautious, and will not let the BJP and the Election Commission steal even a single vote in Bihar. Ambedkar ji gave this Constitution to the country. This is not just an ordinary book, it’s a book of ideology and reflection.”
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