Sonia Gandhi To Join Congress's Bharat Jodo Yatra On Thursday: Sources
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Sonia Gandhi, who was abroad for a medical check-up when the march began, would join it for the first time in Mandya District.
Sonia Gandhi will join the Congress's ambitious 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' in Karnataka on Thursday (October 6), sources said on Sunday. Congress leader and Mrs Gandhi's daughter, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, will join the march the next day, they added.
The Congress interim chief, who was abroad for a medical check-up when the march began, would join it for the first time from Mandya District. She will reach Karnataka tomorrow and will be in Coorg for two days before participating in the yatra led by Rahul Gandhi, the sources said.
Earlier, Karnataka Congress President DK Shivakumar and AICC General Secretary KC Venugopal had said that Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra would participate in the yatra in the state separately and that the dates would be announced soon.
The 'Bharat Jodo Yatra', which began on September 7 from Kanyakumari and entered Karnataka on Friday after Tamil Nadu and Kerala, will span about 511 km of the BJP-ruled state over 21 days.
