It commenced on 11 December 1991 in Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, coinciding with the birth anniversary of Subramania Bharati and the ‘Balidan Diwas’ of Guru Tegh Bahadur.
The rally's final stop to hoist the Indian flag in Jammu and Kashmir on 26 January 1992 was considered to have minimal success, as few locals participated.
[3] Murli Manohar Joshi made it to Srinagar's Lal Chowk in a military aircraft to unfurl the national flag on January 26.
[6] The 2011 Ekta Yatra was led by Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, BJP youth wing national president and Lok Sabha member of Parliament Anurag Thakur.
The Ekta Yatra was to end with the unfurling of the flag on 26 January in Lal Chowk, a city square in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.