Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav reunite in Agra for a yatra after seven years

AGRA: Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ reached its last ‘UP-leg’ on Sunday in Agra, where SP president Akhilesh Yadav and a multitude of party supporters participated.

his was only days after Congress and SP finalized their seat-sharing agreement for the Lok Sabha elections. State Congress leaders and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were also in attendance.
Speaking to the populace at an Agra street crossing, Yadav said that preserving democracy and the Constitution will be the main task in the days ahead.

“To fulfil the dreams of BR Ambedkar, that have been ruined by BJP, we must all take a pledge: ‘BJP hatao, desh bachao, sankat mitao’ (remove BJP, save the nation and end the crisis),” Yadav said.
“Agra is renowned as the city of love around the globe. I’m glad that here is where the “shop of love,” or mohabbat ki dukaan, has begun. We are hopeful that the PDA (Pichhre, Dalit, and Alpsankhyak) and the INDIA bloc would unite in their struggle against the NDA,” he said.

Yadav brought up the predicament of farmers, saying, “Farmers are against the government now. The government fears the influence of farmers. The government of the INDIA alliance would respect all farmers in the coming days, when the BJP government will be overthrown.” He continued by saying that minorities, Dalits, and the lower classes had not received the respect they deserved from the Centre.
Rahul, meanwhile, said, “You will experience unfairness if you are poor. This injustice is today’s cause of hate.

Thus, we have included the term “justice” or “nyay” in our expedition. You are attempting to start a “mohabbat ki dukan in nafrat ka bazar,” someone pointed out. Priyanka and I, Akhilesh, are attempting to do this.”
Many people were reminded of the day, before to the 2017 state elections, when Rahul and Akhilesh together appeared in Agra for a 12-kilometer roadshow. In the Agra division, the SP gained three seats in Mainpuri and one in Firozabad, while the Congress came up empty in this area. Notably, the BJP won all four of the Lok Sabha seats in 2019—Agra (reserved), Aligarh, Hathras (reserved), and Fatehpur Sikri—through which the ‘Nyay yatra’ went on Sunday.

Akhilesh resisted Rahul’s yatra in Uttar Pradesh for days, saying he would only take part if the seat-sharing agreement with the Congress was finalized. The SP chief formally declared on Wednesday that the INDIA alliance would run a unified front in the next Lok Sabha elections. It was the first seat-sharing agreement of that kind for any state that the opposition alliance has disclosed. In the UP, Congress will now run for 17 of the 80 LS seats.