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31st January 2023
India’s Rahul Gandhi supporters finish 5-month rally and march against increasingly nationalist state
Over the last five months, thousands of Indians have joined Bharat Jodo Yatra, or Unite India March, in a movement against the “politics of hate and division,” which some say are gaining force in India.
The 2,200-mile-long rally, crisscrossing the country from south to north, has been one of the most-ambitious political rallies since the country’s independence.
Rahul Gandhi, 52, the face of the Indian National Congress party, led the march that began in September of 2022 and ended on Monday in