‘Voter Adhikaar Yatra’: Rahul Gandhi and RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav ride bikes in Purnea; watch | India News

NEW DELHI: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and his RJD ally Tejashwi Yadav had been seen using motorbikes on the eighth day of their “Vote Adhikaar Yatra” at Purnea in poll-bound Bihar.While passing by way of Kursela, chief of opposition Rahul Gandhi on Saturday made an unscheduled halt at Makhana fields close to Simaria, the place he interacted with farmers to be taught concerning the cultivation course of, yields, and export potential of Bihar’s famed fox nut.Farmers shared their considerations, pointing to exploitation by middlemen and the absence of honest pricing mechanisms. Gandhi famous that whereas Makhana fetches round Rs 700 per kg domestically, it’s offered overseas, together with in the US, at a number of occasions that worth, underscoring the dearth of presidency help for producers. Bihar Congress president Rajesh Ram echoed the sentiment, saying that regardless of rising international demand, farmers and fishermen stay trapped by middlemen and denied a justifiable share of earnings.

Why Vote Adhikaar Yatra?

The Vote Adhikaar Yatra is a mass outreach kicked off by Congress chief Rahul Gandhi to spotlight what he calls an assault on the core precept of democracy, the correct to vote.Covering greater than 1,300 kilometres throughout over 20 districts, the Yatra seeks to mobilise folks in opposition to alleged “irregularities” in the revision of electoral rolls in the course of the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR).The opposition has alleged that the method is being “manipulated to delete the names of poor, minorities, and migrant workers, amounting to a new form of vote theft”.