Staff Reporter
The Interim President of the Congress party, Sonia Gandhi today, joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra near Belluru cross, in Mandya district, Karnataka.
Former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, Karnataka state President D K Shivakumar, and other senior leaders accompanied her during the yatra. The Congress party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra commenced in Karnataka today after a gap of two days.
The Yatra led by Rahul Gandhi commenced at Chinya village in Mandya district. The Yatra entered its Karnataka leg on September 30th and is covering around 25kms every day by walk. Speaking to media persons in the morning, state President D K Shivakumar said that it was a matter of pride for them that Sonia Gandhi took part in the yatra today.
Ms. Gandhi has joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra for the first time since it began on September 7 and wound its way through parts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala before entering Karnataka on September 30.
Sonia Gandhi joining the Yatra in poll-bound Karnataka has given fresh boost to Congress worker in the state. Ms. Gandhi, who arrived in Mysuru on Tuesday and spent the last two days at a forest resort in Kabini when the Bharat Jodo Yatra was on a two-day break for Dasara festival.
Sonia Gandhi joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra for the first time since it began on September 7 and wound its way through parts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala before entering Karnataka on September 30.
The padayatris and party leaders assembled at Bellale village in Pandavapura early on Thursday morning and began the march with fluttering the party flags and gutsy sloganeering.
The Congress President has joined the march about two weeks before the Bharat Jodo Yatra’s mammoth public rally scheduled to be held at Ballari, from where she had been elected to the Lok Sabha in 1999.