Bharat Jodo Yatra not just physical endeavour but effort to rebuild 'broken collective conscience': Mallikarjun Kharge

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said the Bharat Jodo Yatra was not just a physical endeavour but a sincere effort to “rebuild our broken collective conscience”.

Describing the Bharat Jodo Yatra as a people's movement, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on September 7 said the foot march was not just a physical endeavour but a sincere effort to "rebuild our broken collective conscience".

On the first anniversary of the party's Kanyakumari to Kashmir Bharat Jodo Yatra, he said it continues to fight the menace of hate and hostility in the society through a conversation.

"The Bharat Jodo Yatra is not just a physical endeavour, it is a sincere effort to rebuild our broken collective conscience. Our ingrained values of justice, liberty equality, and fraternity, for us, are supreme," Mr. Kharge said in a statement posted on X.

"The Congress party is continuously reaching out to people in an endeavour to reclaim our Constitution and protect our Democracy," he said.

On this day in 2022, the Congress launched the yatra in Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu, the southern tip of the country.

"The trend of manufacturing irrelevant headlines to divert attention from the real issues of people to hide the agenda of hate and division is a systemic attack on our collective conscience," Mr. Kharge said.