The leaders of Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) on Sunday gathered at Mumbai’s Shivaji Park on the culminating event of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ in a show of strength ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, which will be held in seven phases starting April 19.

The event was attended by senior Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Priyanka Gandhi, NCP (SP) president Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena (UBT) president Uddhav Thackeray, and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav.

The ‘Nyay Yatra’, which began in strife-torn Manipur on January 14, concluded on Saturday after 63 days in Mumbai. It crossed over 100 Lok Sabha constituencies in 15 states including Assam, West Bengal, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Maharashtra.

Rahul Gandhi: The Congress leader, who carried out a 63-day mass outreach movement–‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’–ahead of the Lok Sabha polls from Manipur, said that he was compelled to launch his yatras to highlight rising unemployment, inflation and hatred in society in the past decade under the Modi government.

He said, “There is a word ‘Shakti’ in Hinduism. We are fighting against a Shakti. The question is, what is that Shakti. The soul of the King is in the EVM. This true. The soul of the King in the EVM and every institution of the country, in ED, CBI and Income Tax department. A senior leader from Maharashtra left Congress and cried in from of my mother and said ‘Sonia ji, I am ashamed that I don’t have the power to fight this Shakti. I do not want to go to jail.’ Thousands of people have been threatened like this…”