At the backdrop of overwhelming fragmentations and prevailing differences, BGVS perceived that common people should come together to thump the forces of darkness though they were small in number but were able to bludgeon. It is to help this process of coming together that the people’s science movement conceived the nationwide Jatha on peace, unity and sovereignty. This Jatha was a reassertion and public articulation of our convictions that had been the driving force in our activities in literacy and education, in health, in promotion of science and self-reliant development and it had all been premised in the credence of three pillars of peace, unity and sovereignty.

At the beginning, a conceptual workshop was organized which also clarified the issues incorporated the Kala Jatha. Details of the methodology of mass mobilisation and enumeration of the past experiences of Kala Jatha also came up in the discussion. A script writing and material preparation workshop was organized form 22^nd-28^th July, 2003 in Bhopal where 25 writers, directors, theater personalities and two master trainers from each state took part and prepared the scripts and the songs for the campaign programme. Among the renowned persons who were present in it included Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi, M.K.Raina, Tripurari Sharma, asghar Wajahat, Vishnu Khare, Rajesh Joshi etc. In the states, Kala Jatha training workshops were organised in August of 2003 where resource persons gave training to the participants who were mainly artists. In the training, they got instructions regarding the plays, songs finalised in the script writing and material preparation workshop. Route charts and the venues of the campaign programmes were finalised and handbills were printed with detailed date wise programme and route chart.

The Jatha travelled across all the states of the country between 8^th September and 2^nd October spreading the messages through the medium of plays, songs, exhibitions, films, books. The total number of Jathas was 42 of which 14 were reginal Jathas. Kalajatha programme held at 1122 places in 259 districts across the country. It finally culminated in five places Wardha in Maharastra, Champaran in Bihar and Khat Khat Kalan (Bhagat Singh’s birth place) in Punjab, Delhi and near Sabarmati Ashram in Gujarat. It travelled even in nine districts of the communally charged Gujarat.

The peace, unity and sovereignty Jathas and related activities succeeded in drawing the attention of the nation and presented alternatives that the BGVS developed viz. the alternative strategies in education, health, rural industrialisation, village level planning and women’s empowerment.