Actor-Politician Urmila Matondkar Joins Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in Jammu

Urmila Matondkar joined Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jammu as we speak.

Jammu:

Actor-politician Urmila Matondkar joined Congress chief Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra because it resumed from Jammu’s garrison city of Nagrota this morning.

Ms Matondkar joined Rahul Gandhi shortly after the march began from close to the military garrison round 8 am amid tight safety, with Congress employees and supporters lined up on the highway alongside the path to welcome them.

Urmila Matondkar, 48, had resigned from the Congress in September 2019 after a brief affiliation of six months, and joined the Shiv Sena in 2020.

Wearing a cream-coloured conventional Kashmir Pheran (unfastened robe) and beanie cap, Ms Matondkar was interacting with Gandhi as they marched alongside.

Famous writer Perumal Murugan and J&Okay Pradesh Congress committee president Vikar Rasool Wani, his predecessor GA Mir and former minister Abdul Hamid Karra additionally joined them alongside a whole lot of different carrying the tricolor of their fingers.

The yatra, which began from Kanyakumari on September 7, entered Jammu and Kashmir from Punjab on Thursday and reached Jammu metropolis on Monday.

The march is scheduled to make two night time halts at Ramban and Banihal alongside the Jammu-Srinagar Nationwide Freeway earlier than its end result in Srinagar with a grand rally on the Sher-e-Kashmir Cricket Stadium on January 30.

A 65-member robust Ladakh delegation led by Ladakh Territorial Congress President Nawang Rigzin Jora joined Gandhi initially of the yatra and briefed him concerning the points and issues of their folks, one of many delegation members stated.

A bunch of Kashmiri Pandit migrant ladies, carrying their conventional apparel and carrying flower petals, had been ready exterior the well-known Kol-Kandoli temple to welcome Rahul Gandhi.

“We’re wandering in Jammu for the final three a long time after our migration from Kashmir. We now have come right here to welcome Gandhi as he might assist in our rehabilitation again within the Valley because it was Congress which labored for the group previously by offering employment bundle to our youth,” Geeta Koul advised Press Belief of India.

She stated the most important concern for them is the rehabilitation of the group and the BJP has miserably “failed” on this mission and “ignored us”.

After strolling for over one-and-a-half hours, the yatra is scheduled to make a stopover and can resume close to the Military gate Rehambal in Udhampur district at 2 pm.
 

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