New Delhi:
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will join the Bharat Jodo Yatra on Wednesday when it enters Madhya Pradesh, senior party leader Jairam Ramesh said.
This is the first time that Priyanka Gandhi, general secretary in charge of Uttar Pradesh, joins the yatra.
In a tweet, Mr Ramesh said Tuesday is a rest day for the Yatra, which will resume on Wednesday when it enters Madhya Pradesh near Burhanpur.
“Priyanka Gandhi will join the Yatra there and participate for four days,” the congress general secretary in charge of communications said in his tweet in Hindi.
Former Congress leader Rahul Gandhi along with other party leaders and workers started the cross-country Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on September 7.
It has so far crossed the states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Maharashtra.
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