Since the launch of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in September last year, the only opposition leaders who have walked with Rahul, who leads the yatra, are from parties in alliance with the Congress in their respective states.
New Delhi: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has invited the heads of 21 “like-minded” political parties to join the concluding ceremony of the party’s 3,550 km Bharat Jodo Yatra in Srinagar on January 30.
While individual leaders and MPs were invited by Rahul Gandhi to join journey In the past, the invitation sent by Kharge on Wednesday is specifically addressed to party heads.
The parties on the list of invitees include Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC), Telugu Desam Party (TDP), Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party (SP), Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Communist Party. of India (CPI), CPI (Marxist), Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren’s Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and Indian Union Muslim League (IUML).
Tejashwi Yadav and his father, former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad, have been invited by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD). Separate invitations have been sent to former Bihar MP Sharad Yadav, as have Umar and Farooq Abdullah of the National Conference.
Notably, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS, formerly Telangana Rashtra Samiti), and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) have been left out of the invitation list. Former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad’s Democratic Azad Party (DAP) has also been sidelined.
On the other hand, the CPI(M), which leads the Left Democratic Front alliance – the Congress’ main opponent in Kerala – has been invited. Other left parties like CPI and Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) have also been invited.
Since the launch of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in September last year, the only opposition leaders who have walked with Rahul, who leads the yatra, are from parties in alliance with the Congress in their respective states.
These include Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) leader MK Stalin, who displayed the green flag. journey from his kingdom; And daughter of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Supriya Sule and Shiv Sena’s Aditya Thackeray (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), both joined the rally in Maharashtra.
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi earlier joined the Congress. journey In Delhi, DMK MP Kanimozhi joined in Haryana.
The only exceptions are Kamal Haasan of Makkal Needhi Maiyam (MNM) who accompanied Rahul to Delhi and National Conference (NC) stalwart and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah who joined him. journey Just before entering Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh.
before the journey Entering UP earlier this month, BSP supremo Mayawati also extended her best wishes to the Congress, though she stayed away from the rally.
SP’s Akhilesh Yadav also did the same when he was invited to join the walkathon. However, his move appeared to be a U-turn from his previous statement journey Where he had said that the Congress and rival BJP were “one and the same”.
Earlier, PDP chief and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti had confirmed that he would join them journey When it passes through the Union Territory between January 20 and 30.
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