Bharat Jodo Abhiyaan [BJA], a civil society platform, to coordinate this nation-wide initiative from 15th August 2024 to 14th April 2025
New Delhi : Bharat Jodo Abhiyaan (BJA), a civil society platform commences an eight-month Jana Gana Mana Abhiyaan [JaGaMA] from Independence Day 2024 to Ambedkar Jayanti 2025 to promote constitutional values, protect democratic institutions and strengthen non-violent political, ideological and cultural resistance so as to defend the Republic. Through a series of activities including commemorations, protests and public engagements this campaign aims to cover 400 Lok Sabha constituencies, our version of “400 paar”. The JaGaMA campaign aims to train 1.25 Lakh volunteers.
Founded in February 2023, the BJA had supported the INDIA Bloc in 156 “target parliamentary constituencies” in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections through mobilizing volunteers and voters, training political workers and puncturing the BJP’s narratives through focused communication.
The Lok Sabha elections of 2024 have been a moral and political defeat for the BJP-RSS regime and a personal defeat for the Prime Minister. But they lack the humility and wisdom to learn from the mandate. They have instead chosen to double down on attacks on minorities and activists, continued with bulldozer (in)justice while carrying on with brazen cronyism. The lifting of restrictions on government servants’ participation in activities of the RSS has accelerated open infiltration of public institutions.
To continually challenge and eventually reverse authoritarianism and majoritarianism, there is a deep and urgent necessity of creating a coalition-for-justice of the bottom of the social pyramid, whose rights and needs are under an unprecedented assault by the BJP-RSS dispensation.
Hence, the Jana Gana Mana Abhiyaan (JaGaMA).
The JaGaMA provides a broad template of a programme of action for the coming eight months. The campaign comprises nine phases, one phase of intense public activity followed by the next phase of organisational consolidation and training.
Each of these phases focuses on a theme :
Azadi from 15th to 30th August, Buniyaad from 1st to 30th September, Rachna aur Sangharsh from 1st to 12th October, Samwaad from 21st October to 10th November, Bandhutva from 11th to 26th November, Vistaar from 27th November to 2nd January, Ganatantra from 3rd to 30th January, Bharat Jodo from 6th February to 22nd March and Nyaya from 23rd March to 14th April. Each phase has a calendar of days of commemoration of our local and national icons besides some coordinated action at the state or national level.