[3] Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi orchestrated the movement by encouraging the party cadre and the public to walk from Kanyakumari at the southern tip of India to the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, a journey of 4,080 kilometres (2,540 miles) over almost 150 days.

The Bharat Jodo Yatra movement was launched by Rahul Gandhi and Tamil Nadu chief minister M. K. Stalin;[7] on 7 September 2022.

[8] It was claimed that its main objective was to protest against the politics of "fear, bigotry and prejudice", and the economics of livelihood destruction, increasing unemployment and growing inequality.

The Indian National Congress launched the logo, tagline, and website for Bharat Jodo Yatra at AICC headquarters on 23 August 2022.

During the march, Congress Member of Parliament (MP) Rahul Gandhi would meet people during the day and would sleep in makeshift accommodation at night.

On 15 October, Rahul Gandhi's public gathering in Ballari amid heavy rainfall got widespread media coverage.

[59][60][61] On 1 November 2022, Late Dalit scholar Rohith Vemula's mother joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra to walk alongside Rahul Gandhi, en route to Hyderabad.

[64] On 11 November 2022, Shiv Sena, leader and former Maharashtra Minister Aaditya Thackeray joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Hingoli district.

[68] On 24 November 2022, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi and her husband Robert Vadra joined Bharat Jodo Yatra in Madhya Pradesh.

[71] Congress communication chief Jairam Ramesh said the yatra had given the party confidence to undertake similar marches from west to east in 2023.

The following day, former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Raghuram Rajan joined Bharat Jodo Yatra in Sawai Madhopur district.

[76] Singer Sunidhi Chauhan performed at a concert marking the completion of 100 days of the protest at Albert Hall Museum in Jaipur on 16 December.

[77] Former Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi joined Bharat Jodo Yatra at Alwar on 20 December 2022.

[81] On 24 December, Bharat Jodo Yatra entered Delhi at Badarpur after resuming from NHPC Chowk metro station.

[91] On 14 January, Congress MP from Jalandhar Santokh Singh Chaudhary died during the march after suffering a heart attack in Phillaur.

[92][93] On 15 January, father of late Punjabi singer Sidhu Moose Wala and historian Mridula Mukherjee joined Bharat Jodo Yatra.

[100] On 20 January 2023, Param Vir Chakra recipient Captain Bana Singh joined Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir.

[101] On 24 January 2023, Actor-politician Urmila Matondkar and prominent author Perumal Murugan joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jammu's garrison town of Nagrota.

[136] Division Bench of the Kerala High Court dismissed a public-interest lawsuit that sought to control Bharat Jodo Yatra, which the petitioner said was impeding both vehicular and pedestrian traffic on public streets.

[137][138] On the fourth day of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Rahul Gandhi reopened a road that had been closed in 1993 due to caste-based violence.

[142] In Odisha, a yatra covered 2,400 km (1,500 mi) and lasted for 100 days,[142] starting on 31 October as a show of strength for the Congress.

[145][146] The BJP started a march called "Jan Aakrosh Yatra" in Rajasthan on 1 December as a protest against the Ashok Gehlot government in the state.

Turnout for the event was poor, it received low public support, and the BJP leaders expressed displeasure with the issue.

[150] Many political analysts have determined that the yatra has resulted in a resurgent public image of Gandhi, which had been long damaged by the BJP.

"[154] After the yatra Congress won Karnataka and Telangana but it suffered crushing defeats in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh by the Bhartiya Janata Party.