In India, Rahul Gandhi's party launches a 150-day march to regain control

Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi (far left) with his supporters before the start of the march on September 7, 2022. AFP - ARUN SANKAR

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The Congress party is launching this Wednesday, September 7, a 150-day march through twelve states, from south to north India.

The opposition party, in difficulty against the BJP party of Narendra Modi in power, has given itself the watchword of "healing India".

A giant political mobilization in the run-up to the general elections of 2024.

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With our correspondent in India,

Côme Bastin

The march was launched at 5 p.m. from the southern tip of India, Kanyakumari.

Congress party

leader Rahul Gandhi

first took communion at a memorial to his father Rajiv Gandhi, who was assassinated by separatists in 1991. “ 

I lost my father to the politics of hate.

I will not lose my country for the same reasons

 ,” Rahul Gandhi tweeted.

A thinly disguised attack on the BJP party accused of manipulating the country's Hindu majority.

3,750 kilometers on foot”

According to Saral Patel, national coordinator of the party, this march promises to be historic.

“ 

The only march of such magnitude was that of Gandhi for the Independence of India.

Alongside Rahul Gandhi, 150 Congress leaders and volunteers will cover

3,750 kilometers on foot.

They will stop in the villages to meet the Indians and understand the problems they face

.

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This giant communication operation is part of a difficult context for the old party.

In recent elections, the Congress was thus swept away by the opposition AAP party in Punjab.

The BJP, for its part, seems comfortably installed at the head of the country and in many states and has not failed to be ironic about this march.

The approximately 50,000 registered citizens hope to thwart the predictions.

I lost my father to the politics of hate and division.

I will not lose my beloved country to it too.



Love will conquer hate.

Hope will defeat fear.

Together, we will overcome.

pic.twitter.com/ODTmwirBHR

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) September 7, 2022

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