Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi was admitted to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in the national capital for treatment of a viral respiratory infection, said hospital authorities.
Anshu Awasthi, spokesperson for the party's Uttar Pradesh unit, said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra reached Mavikalan from Delhi prior to the yatra's resumption.
The yatra, which has been renamed as ‘Sagar Se Pahar Tak' in the state, was flagged off by Chowdhury from Ganga Sagar Island in South 24 Parganas district on December 28.
Congress leaders from Mizoram, which borders the southern Assam region, will also participate in the padayatra to improve relations between the two states, Leader of Opposition Debabrata Saikia said.
Democratic Azad Party head and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad rejected reports about his rejoining the Congress as "completely baseless"
Congress MP also made a streak of paying tributes to former Prime Ministers including Indira Gandhi at Shakti Sthal, father Rajiv Gandhi at Veer Bhumi, and Lal Bahadur Shastri at Vijay Ghat on Monday.
One is the product of the RTI and anti-corruption movements in the country while the other comes from a Congress background, his mother being a former minister of a state Congress government.
While Congress workers appeared upbeat even amid the biting Delhi cold, BJP Minister Anurag Thakur reminded the grand old party of the renewed Covid surge across the globe and advised: "mask up".
The trouble shooter who was rushed to Hyderabad by the AICC, was meeting leaders individually at Gandhi Bhavan, the headquarters of Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee.