Congress invites Akhilesh, Mayawati, Jayant to attend Bharat Jodo Yatra in UP- The New Indian Express

By PTI

LUCKNOW: The Congress has invited a number of leaders of non-BJP events, together with Samajwadi Social gathering president Akhilesh Yadav, BSP supremo Mayawati and RLD’s Jayant Chaudhary, to participate within the Uttar Pradesh leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra.

An exception is former deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma who has been invited to the yatra in his capability as a professor of Lucknow College.

One other professor of the college, Ravikant, has additionally been invited.

The Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra will enter Uttar Pradesh on January 3 by way of Loni in Ghaziabad. It’ll then go by way of Baghpat and Shamli to enter Haryana.

Congress spokesperson Ashok Singh advised PTI that the get together has prolonged invites to distinguished opposition leaders within the state to attend the yatra.

Within the current occasions when individuals are not allowed to boost their views, this yatra is the one choice to know folks’s minds, the spokesperson mentioned.

Your entire opposition has virtually the identical view about this authorities so that they have been invited to take part within the yatra, the get together spokesman mentioned.

Along with Yadav, Mayawati and Chaudhary, the Congress has invited SP MLA Shivpal Singh Yadav, BSP common secretary Satish Mishra, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Social gathering chief Omprakash Rajbhar and Communist Social gathering of India secretary Atul Anjan, he mentioned.

Former Union minister Salman Khurshid, who’s the state coordinator of the yatra, had advised newspersons final week that the Bharat Jodo Yatra is just not of any get together however of the entire nation and leaders of varied events might be invited to attend it.

He, nonetheless, had not shared the names of leaders who can be invited then.

Congress common secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who had led the get together’s marketing campaign within the Uttar Pradesh meeting elections earlier this yr, will be part of the yatra within the state on all three days.

The Kanyakumari-to-Kashmir yatra, which has to date traversed greater than 2,800 km by way of 10 states, is on a nine-day winter break and can resume on January 3.

It began from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on September 7 and can conclude in Kashmir early subsequent yr.

<br /> LUCKNOW: The Congress has invited a number of leaders of non-BJP events, together with Samajwadi Social gathering president Akhilesh Yadav, BSP supremo Mayawati and RLD’s Jayant Chaudhary, to participate within the Uttar Pradesh leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra.</p> <p>An exception is former deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma who has been invited to the yatra in his capability as a professor of Lucknow College.</p> <p>One other professor of the college, Ravikant, has additionally been invited.</p> <p>The Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra will enter Uttar Pradesh on January 3 by way of Loni in Ghaziabad. It’ll then go by way of Baghpat and Shamli to enter Haryana.</p> <p>Congress spokesperson Ashok Singh advised PTI that the get together has prolonged invites to distinguished opposition leaders within the state to attend the yatra.</p> <p>Within the current occasions when individuals are not allowed to boost their views, this yatra is the one choice to know folks’s minds, the spokesperson mentioned.</p> <p>Your entire opposition has virtually the identical view about this authorities so that they have been invited to take part within the yatra, the get together spokesman mentioned.</p> <p>Along with Yadav, Mayawati and Chaudhary, the Congress has invited SP MLA Shivpal Singh Yadav, BSP common secretary Satish Mishra, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Social gathering chief Omprakash Rajbhar and Communist Social gathering of India secretary Atul Anjan, he mentioned.</p> <p>Former Union minister Salman Khurshid, who’s the state coordinator of the yatra, had advised newspersons final week that the Bharat Jodo Yatra is just not of any get together however of the entire nation and leaders of varied events might be invited to attend it.</p> <p>He, nonetheless, had not shared the names of leaders who can be invited then.</p> <p>Congress common secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who had led the get together’s marketing campaign within the Uttar Pradesh meeting elections earlier this yr, will be part of the yatra within the state on all three days.</p> <p>The Kanyakumari-to-Kashmir yatra, which has to date traversed greater than 2,800 km by way of 10 states, is on a nine-day winter break and can resume on January 3.</p> <p>It began from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on September 7 and can conclude in Kashmir early subsequent yr.<br />