The Congress party's Bharat Jodo Yatra is a "new freedom movement or a second freedom stru♋ggle" to unite the people against the BJP's alleged "polarising strategy", a ꦏnoted economist and former member of Maharashtra State Planning Board professor H M Desarda, said here on Tuesday.
The pro🐠fessor, who has joined the yatra from Kanyakumari to support it on behalf of the civil society, said political parties and mass movements opposed to BJP's alleged "polarising strategy" should unite.
Speaking at a press conference in Thiruvananthapuram, he claimed tha🌊t the yatra has been jointly organised by the Congress and civil society organisations to oppose the allegedly bankru🌌pt policies of the Central government.
"The yatra should unite the common people to counter the🎃 forces of fascism and th✤e status quo. The need of the hour is to unite 90 per cent of the people who are unorganised farmers, self-employed daily wage earners and construction and domestic workers.
"... It is a new freedom movement, a seconᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚd freedom struggle," heꦑ added.
Highlightin📖g the problems he has seen in the country, the professor claimed that the growth and governance model in the country and many States was still &q💃uot;feudal, colonial, pseudo-socialist and parasitic".
He further co𝄹ntended that even after 75 years of independence, though the colonial rulers have left, "their bankrupt policies are still being perpetrated" and as a result, more than a billion people in the country are in deep distress which has allegedly worsened during the Narendra Modi government's rule.
Therefore, the character of the Congress party has to undergo a radical change, i🔴t should bec🌳ome the Nationalist Movement that it was during Mahatma Gandhi's time, he said.
(With PTI inputs)
