Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Nov 9: Sharad Pawar, the head of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), and Aaditya Thackeray, a former minister from Maharashtra, will join the Congress’ Bharat Jodo Yatra on November 11, according to Maharashtra Congress leader Ashok Chavan on Wednesday.
Jayant Patil, Supriya Sule, and Jitendra Awhad, three NCPs, will join tomorrow, he added.
“NCP chief Sharad Pawar and Shiv Sena’s Aaditya Thackeray will join the Congress party’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ on November 11, while NCP’s Jayant Patil, Supriya Sule and Jitendra Awhad will join tomorrow,” said Chavan.
Mallikarjun Kharge, the president of the Congress, will join the Yatra tomorrow, according to Chavan. On Monday evening, the Maharashtra phase of the Bharat Jodo Yatra began.
Rahul Gandhi will traverse a distance of 382 kilometres in 15 days by visiting 15 Assembly and 6 parliamentary districts in five districts of Maharashtra. Parts of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana have already been visited during the yatra.
The 3,570-kilometre Bharat Jodo Yatra, which started on September 7 in Kanyakumari, will travel an additional 2,355 miles. Next year, it will conclude in Kashmir. The Congress asserted earlier in a statement that it is the longest march on foot by any Indian politician in India’s history.
