The Wire Staff 
New Delhi: An FIR has been lodged in the Jorhat Sadar Police Station, Assam again the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra being led by Congress’s Rahul Gandhi and its chief organiser K.B. Byju for allegedly deviating from the route that had been allowed in Jorhat town.
According to PTI, the FIR states that the yatra did not follow the district administration’s norms and violated road safety rules.
Leader of opposition in Assam Debabrata Saikia told PTI that this FIR was a political move, as the Bharatiya Janata Party was shaken by the yatra’s success. “There was no police manning the traffic diversion at the PWD point. The assigned route was too small and we had a huge gathering. So, we took a detour for just a few metres. Himanta Biswa Sarma is scared of the Yatra’s success on the first day (in Assam) and now wants to derail it,” he said.
While in Assam, Gandhi had heavily criticised the Sarma-led BJP government, calling it “perhaps the most corrupt government in India”. Addressing party workers at Halowating in Sivasagar district, he had said, “Perhaps, the most corrupt government in India is in Assam. We will raise the issues of Assam during the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.”
Sarma retaliated by saying that was in fact that Gandhi family that was the most corrupt. His response also came with communal overtones, as he said the yatra was only meant for ‘Miyas’ (Bengali Muslims living in Assam). “The Gandhi family is the most corrupt family in the country. This is not ‘Nyay Yatra, it’s ‘Miya Yatra’. Wherever there are Muslims, they visit those places,” he said.
The east to west yatra is the largest mass outreach programme ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, and will travel around 6,700 km. It started on January 14 in Manipur’s Thoubal and will end in Mumbai, Maharashtra on March 20 or 21.