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Bharat Jodo Yatra is currently in its Maharashtra leg. Before entering Maharashtra, the Yatra has already covered parts of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana.

The yatra, which has been passing through Maharashtra since November 7, resumed the day's journey from Balapur in Akola district around 6 am and reached Shegaon a few hours later, where Tushar Gandhi, an author and activist, joined it.

The yatra began at 6 am from a Zilla Parishad school at Kupta in Balapur. It will reach Shegaon during its morning break, where the Congress leader will visit the famous Shri Sant Gajanan Maharaj temple.

The foot march, which began at 6 am from Jambhrun Phata, will proceed to Medshi village in the evening and will take a night halt at Patur in Akola district.

The Congress leader had also targeted the state and Central governments over the shifting of mega projects like the Vedanta-Foxconn and the Tata Airbus from Maharashtra to poll-bound Gujarat.

More than 55 lakh voters in the hill state will decide the fate of 412 candidates in 68 assembly constituencies.

Thackeray is scheduled to join the foot march around 4 pm along with Leader of Opposition in the state Legislative Council Ambadas Danve and Sena legislator Sachin Ahir, the Congress has said.

Nanded: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi has slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying his Demonetisation and hasty implementation of GST destroyed the economy and led to massive joblessness in the country. Addressing a huge rally during the Bharat Jodo Yatra (BJY) in Maharashtra’s Nanded on Thursday, Gandhi criticised Modi for the disastrous decision to demonetise Rs […]

On the last day of his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Telangana, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday walked through some villages of Kamareddy district.

Sangareddy: A police constable on duty during Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra suffered a fracture on his left leg after a car hit him near the housing board colony in Jogipet town in Sangareddy on Saturday morning. Bathini Shiva Kumar (29) of Itikiyala village of Jagadevpur Mandal in Siddipet, and a constable at […]

The former Union minister said with the ongoing foot march "the countdown has started" for Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao in Telangana and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi.

Touching several villages en route his yatra, Gandhi walked across Andole-Jogipet twin towns.

“#BharatJodoYatra will take a day's break on 4th Nov. We begin afresh from Medak, Telangana on 5th Nov," the Bharat Jodo's official Twitter handle said.

The Yatra resumed from Patancheru on the city outskirts Thursday morning and it will halt at Sivampet in Sangareddy district for the night, Congress sources said.

In a statement issued here on Wednesday, Laxman stated that though Rahul Gandhi paid homage to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's statue installed at Necklace Road, he did not pay tributes to Narasimha Rao, who is considered one of the tallest leaders of Telangana.

According to party leaders, Raut was moving towards the stage at Charminar, from where Rahul Gandhi was resuming his yatra, but before he could reach the venue, the police started pushing people to make way for Rahul and in the melee Raut lost his balance and fell down sustaining minor injuries.

Bhatt, the first noted Bollywood celebrity to have joined the Yatra, was seen walking with Gandhi while having a discussion with him.

Gandhi will attend a corner meeting at Muthangi before halting for the night, the party sources said. This is the eighth day of the party's campaign in the state.

Hyderabad: The ruling TRS party has reacted strongly to Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s comments on Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao’s entry into national politics with the launch of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS), pointing out that the Congress scion could not win Parliament elections in Amethi but was criticizing the Chief Minister’s national party ambitions. The […]

Hyderabad: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday was joined by the mother of Rohith Vemula, a Dalit student of the University of Hyderabad who died by suicide in 2016 following alleged harassment, in the Bharat Jodo Yatra here. Radhika Vemula walked with Gandhi briefly during the morning leg of the Yatra. “Extended solidarity to Bharat […]