Congreeman Jairam Ramesh tweeted on Monday that the Bharat Jodo Yatra, which is led by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, will enter Madhya Pradesh from Maharashtra on Wednesday.
The participants in the yatra will camp at Nimkhedi in Maharashtra’s Jalgaon district for two days before entering Madhya Pradesh after travelling through portions of six states, he added.
Congress General Secretary in-charge Communications Jairam Ramesh today tweeted “Today and tomorrow are rest days for #BharatJodoYatra which is camped at Nimkhedi in Maharashtra. Early morning on Wednesday, 23rd November, the yatra will move into Madhya Pradesh.”
During the break from Bharat Jodo Yatra, Rahul Gandhi will address two election rallies in poll-bound Gujarat.
Rahul Gandhi, the previous president of the Congress, did not campaign in Gujarat for this election till today, hence he was not present there.
Rahul Gandhi will be speaking at two public rallies in Rajkot and Surat on Monday for the first time. He had previously abstained from campaigning in Himachal Pradesh, where assembly elections were held on November 12.
On Monday, Rahul Gandhi is expected to give speeches at rallies at Panch Kakada, close to Anaval Village, Mahuwa town in the Surat district, and at Shastri Maidan in Rajkot.
His first political event since the Bharat Jodo Yatra began on September 7 will be this one.
The 182-member State Assembly will be chosen in two rounds of voting on December 1 and 5. On December 8, there will be a vote count in Himachal Pradesh.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has been in power in Gujarat for more than 27 years, is running for a seventh term.
Rahul Gandhi last made an appearance in Gujarat on September 5, when he spoke to party members in Ahmedabad. Two days later, he left for Tamil Nadu to head the Yatra, which started on September 7 from Kanyakumari.
Parts of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, and Maharashtra have previously been visited by the Bharat Jodo Yatra.
Beginning on September 7 in Kanyakumari, the Bharat Jodo Yatra will end in Kashmir the following year.