The Nyay Yatra - which will travel through 100 Lok Sabha segments in 15 states - will put the spotlight on issues such as unemployment, price rise and social justice.

The party believes it will prove to be as "transformative" as Gandhi's earlier cross-country march.

Here are the 10 key points in this big story:

1. The Congress has said that it is taking out the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra as the government did not give it a chance to raise people's issues in Parliament. The initiative, the party said, is aimed at re-establishing the principles of justice, liberty, equality and fraternity enshrined in the Constitution.
2. Though the Congress has maintained that the yatra is not aimed at Lok Sabha polls, the initiative comes at a crucial juncture as the party seeks to revive its fortunes after a poor showing in the last round of assembly elections.
3. With the BJP focusing on the January 22 Ram temple consecration ceremony, the Congress wants to put the spotlight on bread-and-butter issues through this yatra. The party on Saturday said it was being taken out against the "anyay kaal" of 10 years of the Narendra Modi government.
4. Ahead of the yatra, Gandhi shared a video montage of women from Manipur sharing their wishes for the march. "This message of love from the women of Manipur is the blessing we need before we begin our battle for justice tomorrow," he said on his WhatsApp channel.
5. The yatra will traverse 6,713 km, mostly in buses but also on foot. It will cover 110 districts in 67 days, before culminating in Mumbai on March 20 or 21. The yatra will be flagged off from a private ground in Thoubal district, instead of Imphal, the party's initial choice. The party changed the venue after the state government gave the Congress conditional approval to flag off the yatra from the Palace Grounds in the state capital, restricting the number of participants.
6. The Thoubal district administration has also imposed some restrictions such as the duration should not exceed an hour and the number of participants should not cross 3,000. The yatra will be in Manipur for a day and cover a little over 100 km. The state has been rocked by ethnic violence since May last year which has claimed more than 180 lives and rendered thousands of people homeless.
7. During a virtual meeting of the opposition INDIA alliance on Saturday, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge invited all leaders of the bloc to join the yatra anywhere along its route, Ramesh informed.
8. Besides Manipur, the yatra will cover four northeastern states -- Nagaland (257 km in two days), Arunachal Pradesh (55 km in one day), Meghalaya (five km in one day) and Assam (833 km in eight days).The yatra will then move on to West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra.
9. According to the route released by the party, the yatra will stay the longest in Uttar Pradesh, covering 1,074 km in 11 days. It would pass through politically vital areas, including Amethi, the Gandhi family bastion of Rae Bareli and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's constituency of Varanasi.
10. Before starting the yatra, Gandhi will pay homage to martyrs at the Khongjom War Memorial in Thoubal, built in memory of those killed in the last Anglo-Manipur War in 1891.

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