Kailash Satyarthi’s ‘Bharat Yatra’ culminates at Rashtrapati Bhawan

After travelling over 12,000 km throughout the country, Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi’s ‘Bharat Yatra’, a movement to spread awareness about child abuse and trafficking, culminated on Monday at the Rashtrapati Bhawan here. In this Yatra, Mr Satyarthi visited 22 states in 35 days with 300 marchers and garnered support from all sections of the society. Appreciating the cause taken up by the Nobel laureate, President Ram Nath Kovind said, 'It’s an important issue which wasn’t touched so far.”

The campaign would create a new history and “I am of the view these 300 marchers would be the real architect of our nation,” he added. He also said India is going to celebrate its 75th Independence in 2022 and “I urged Satyarthiji to prepare a roadmap for next five years for its complete eradication.” Earlier, Mr Satyarthi said, “Bharat Yatra is a non-violent movement and a war against sexual abuse. It’s a war against silence, fear, apathy and inaction. Now, India is awakening. Ordinary people of India are going to win this war.”

Stating that the voices of children cannot be silenced now, he called for boycott of the predators from the society. He also urged for a strong legal deterrent, appropriate allocation of resources and preventive measures to stop such kind of abuse and trafficking. Meanwhile, Mr Satyarthi also proposed to set up a high-level national children tribunal in the country. Besides, also demanded for establishing an exclusive court for child abuse and trafficking in every district of the country.