Published Oct 03, 2026 | 4:10 PM ⚊ Updated Oct 03, 2026 | 4:33 PM
Rahul Gandhi said the new platform is for all those who believe in the power of peaceful resistance.
Synopsis: Rahul Gandhi launched a website, ‘Satyagraha,’ to help organise protests across the country, bring them together on a single map, and work together to assess whether the Congress could help protesters achieve what they are fighting for. Incidentally, the platform was launched on the 120th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi introducing the concept of Satyagraha.
Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi launched a new platform, Satyagraha, for people across India who believe in the power of peaceful resistance to speak the truth and be heard.
The website was launched on Saturday, 3 October, a day after the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, who introduced the concept of Satyagraha, a portmanteau of Sanskrit words, satya (truth) and agraha (persistence), 120 years ago.
Rahul Gandhi launched the Satyagraha website to organise multiple protests happening across the country.
“Truth is being suppressed all across the country. There are multiple protests happening across the country. Protests about land, protests about women’s rights, protests about Dalit rights, OBC rights, protests for education, protests about exams. And we want to help organise these protests, put them together on one map, and work together with you to see if we can help you resolve what you’re fighting for,” he said in a video in Hindi posted on X.
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Invoking Mahatma Gandhi, he said, “Bapu taught us that truth is our greatest weapon. But an even greater weapon is standing together with the truth. If you too are fighting against any injustice, share your story. It will take just two minutes.”
The Indian National Congress said in a media statement that the platform was launched around Gandhi Jayanti because it “reflects a commitment to Mahatma’s ideals of truth, non-violence and fearless resistance to injustice, and to carrying that spirit into the struggles of today”.
“As Leader of the Opposition, it’s important for me to help people resist where truth is being crushed. The truth is important. It’s important at the highest levels, but it’s important that we fight for it in every corner of the country,” Rahul Gandhi said in the video message.
He urged the people to check the Satyagraha website, “fill the form, enrol your movement on the website, and we will try to see how we can support you. We’ll be in touch,” he said.
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देशभर में लोग अपने हक़ के लिए लड़ रहे हैं – और अक्सर अकेले लड़ रहे हैं।
Gen Z, छात्र, किसान, आदिवासी, दलित, महिलाएँ – हर संघर्ष की अपनी कहानी है। पर जो आवाज़ अकेली उठती है, वो अक्सर दब जाती है।
'सत्याग्रह' इन्हीं आवाज़ों को एक नक्शे पर साथ लाने की पहल है।
बापू ने यही सिखाया था… pic.twitter.com/X8jUwnyLBO
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) October 3, 2026
Rahul Gandhi, the Congress MP from Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh, launched the platform as protests against irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls and calls for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar intensified across the country.
On Friday, 2 October, Shivaji Park in Mumbai and Jantar Mantar in New Delhi saw massive protests, mostly led by youngsters. The protest continued at Jantar Mantar for the second consecutive day on Saturday.
Mahatma Gandhi introduced Satyagraha — which later turned into a potent, non-violent weapon against British imperialism — in 1906, opposing a British law that discriminated against Asians in Transvaal, South Africa.
Champaran, an indigo-growing district, witnessed India’s first Satyagraha in 1917. The Champaran Satyagraha marked one of Gandhi’s first acts of civil disobedience in India.
The Satyagraha forced the British to enact the Champaran Agrarian Act of 1918.
(Compiled by Majnu Babu).
