New Delhi: Congress President Sonia Gandhi will join the Bharat Jodo Yatra on October 6 in Mandya, Karnataka, party sources said.
Party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi may also join the Yatra this week.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra was launched at Kanyakumari on September 7, and the foot march started from the morning of September 8.
On Sunday, the Congress leader addressed a public meeting in Mysuru, Karnataka.
“On the evening of Gandhi Jayanthi, undeterred by a downpour in Mysuru, Rahul Gandhi electrified a sea of people. It was an unequivocal declaration. No force can stop Bharat from uniting India against hate, from speaking up against unemployment and price rise,” party leader Jairam Ramesh said in a tweet.
Rahul Gandhi also paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi on his 153rd birth anniversary at Khadi Gramodyaga Kendra in Karnataka’s Badanavalu where Mahatma Gandhi had visited in 1927..
“Just as Gandhiji fought the British Raj, we … (have) embarked on a battle with the very ideology that killed Gandhi. This ideology has delivered inequality, divisiveness and the erosion of our hard-won freedoms in the past eight years. Against this politics of himsa (violence) and ‘asatya’ (lies), the Bharat Jodo Yatra will spread the message of Ahimsa and Swaraj from Kanyakumari to Kashmir,” Rahul Gandhi said.
He said just as Gandhiji fought the British Raj, we are today embarked on a battle with the very ideology that killed Gandhi.
Earlier in the day, Congress Interim President Sonia Gandhi and Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat.
