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Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra (lit. ' Uniting India for Justice March '), [2] commonly referred to as the Nyay Yatra (lit. ' Justice March ') [3] [4] was a movement led by the Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, starting on 14 January 2024 from Thoubal in Manipur and ended on 16 March 2024 in Mumbai spanning east-west of India. [5]
Bharat Jodo Yatra (lit. ' Unite India March ') was a mass movement [1] [2] which was held by the Indian National Congress ("the Congress" or INC as short form). [3] Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi orchestrated the movement by encouraging the party cadre and the public to walk from Kanyakumari at the southern tip of India to the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, a journey of 4,080 ...
The yatra used to be a small affair undertaken by a few saints and older devotees until the late 1980s, when it started gaining popularity. [2] Today, the kanwar pilgrimage to Haridwar in particular has grown to be India's largest annual religious gathering, with an estimated 30 million devotees in the 2023 and 2024 events.
The Ratha Yatra of Puri, also rendered as the Ratha Jatra (Odia: ରଥଯାତ୍ରା, lit. 'chariot festival') ( / ˈ r ʌ θ ə ˈ j ɑː t r ɑː / , Odia pronunciation: [ɾɔt̪ʰɔ dʒat̪ɾa] ), is considered the oldest and largest Hindu chariot festival celebrated annually, on the bright half of the lunar month of Ashadh (June–July).
This Yatra was started on November 6, 2017 and ended on January 9, 2019. [citation needed] The Indian National Congress, under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi, started Bharat Jodo Yatra, a padyatra on September 7, 2022 in Kanniyakumari at the tip of the Indian peninsula. This foot march will cover about 3,570 km in around five months.
The Yatra started from the Red Fort, New Delhi, in the year 2014, [15] to Nepal in 2015 [16] covering Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Jharkhand, Guwahati in 2016 covering West Bengal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Meghalaya, and Nagaland, Kolkata in 2017 [17] covering Orissa, and Andhra Pradesh, [18] Chennai in 2018 covering Tamil Nadu and Kerala ...
A generic character, unique to jatra and part of most jatra performances even today, is the allegorical figure called Bibek or Vivek (Conscience); it performs the function of a moral guardian, commenting on actions of actors and their consequences, sometimes it elaborates on the feelings of different characters, and often steps into a scene ...
The Tamil calendar (தமிழ் நாட்காட்டி) is a sidereal solar calendar used by the Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is also used in Puducherry , and by the Tamil population in Sri Lanka , Malaysia , Singapore , Myanmar and Mauritius .