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As the voting in the final phase of the previous Lok Sabha elections ended on May 19, 2019, and exit polls started pouring in, predicting a landslide by the Narendra Modi-led BJP, Yogendra Yadav created a stir by declaring, “Congress must die“. “If it could not stop the BJP in this election to save the idea of India, this party (Congress) has no positive role in Indian history. Today it represents the single biggest obstacle to creation of an alternative,” Yadav had then tweeted.
Four days later, the election results saw the BJP returning to power with a resounding victory, with PM Modi retaining power with a bigger mandate than the 2014 polls, when he had spearheaded the party to triumph by defeating the incumbent Congress-led UPA that had been tottering since 2011 in the wake of the India Against Corruption (IAC) movement.
Cut to September 8, 2022 morning, when Yadav went live on Facebook, as sea waves crashed onto a rocky shore behind him in Kanyakumari. Moments later, he would join the Congress’s “Bharat Jodo Yatra” launched by Rahul Gandhi from there, who will undertake along with his party Yatris a 3,570-km countrywide foot march over five months.
Clubbing these two episodes, Yadav’s critics have sought to project a “contradiction” between his words and deeds. And Yadav seems to be fully conscious of such a stinging critique of his move. “You will see the name of the Congress and see Rahul Gandhi’s pictures being splashed all over. But make no mistake, this Yatra does not belong to one party, or one individual. People from many mass movements have joined it. It is about the reclaiming of the Indian Republic. They will dismantle, we will build,” he said.Clubbing these two episodes, Yadav’s critics have sought to project a “contradiction” between his words and deeds. And Yadav seems to be fully conscious of such a stinging critique of his move. “You will see the name of the Congress and see Rahul Gandhi’s pictures being splashed all over. But make no mistake, this Yatra does not belong to one party, or one individual. People from many mass movements have joined it. It is about the reclaiming of the Indian Republic. They will dismantle, we will build,” he said.
Four days later, the election results saw the BJP returning to power with a resounding victory, with PM Modi retaining power with a bigger mandate than the 2014 polls, when he had spearheaded the party to triumph by defeating the incumbent Congress-led UPA that had been tottering since 2011 in the wake of the India Against Corruption (IAC) movement.
Cut to September 8, 2022 morning, when Yadav went live on Facebook, as sea waves crashed onto a rocky shore behind him in Kanyakumari. Moments later, he would join the Congress’s “Bharat Jodo Yatra” launched by Rahul Gandhi from there, who will undertake along with his party Yatris a 3,570-km countrywide foot march over five months.
Clubbing these two episodes, Yadav’s critics have sought to project a “contradiction” between his words and deeds. And Yadav seems to be fully conscious of such a stinging critique of his move. “You will see the name of the Congress and see Rahul Gandhi’s pictures being splashed all over. But make no mistake, this Yatra does not belong to one party, or one individual. People from many mass movements have joined it. It is about the reclaiming of the Indian Republic. They will dismantle, we will build,” he said.Clubbing these two episodes, Yadav’s critics have sought to project a “contradiction” between his words and deeds. And Yadav seems to be fully conscious of such a stinging critique of his move. “You will see the name of the Congress and see Rahul Gandhi’s pictures being splashed all over. But make no mistake, this Yatra does not belong to one party, or one individual. People from many mass movements have joined it. It is about the reclaiming of the Indian Republic. They will dismantle, we will build,” he said.