Akhilesh Yadav To Accompany Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka On Yatra’s Last Day In Uttar Pradesh Following Seat Pact

Samajwadi Party chairman Akhilesh Yadav is scheduled to attend Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Agra on Sunday, only days after the congressman announced the seat-sharing agreement for Uttar Pradesh in the Lok Sabha elections.

This is happening only one day after the Yatra started on Saturday in Moradabad, Uttar Pradesh, when Congress national secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra joined her brother for the last leg of the yatra.

According to the Congress, she would travel with Gandhi throughout the yatra, which will end on Sunday in Fatehpur Sikri after stopping at Amroha, Sambhal, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Hathras, and Agra.

Earlier in the week, Yadav received an invitation to participate in the yatra in Agra from Congress officials during an afternoon visit to the Samajwadi Party headquarters.

With the invitation letter from party president Mallikarjun Kharge, Ajay Rai, the head of the Uttar Pradesh Congress, senior party leader PL Punia, and other party members visited the SP headquarters here. “Akhilesh Yadav is not in Lucknow, so I received the letter,” said Rajendra Chaudhury, national secretary of the SP.

He said that Yadav would begin the yatra in Agra on February 25 at 2:00 PM. The two partners of the INDIA group on Wednesday declared the seat-sharing plan for the Lok Sabha elections, which states that the Congress would run for 17 of the state’s 80 seats.

Only a few days after the two parties announced their agreement to share the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh will accompany Rahul and Priyanka on their Yatra in Agra. The SP and its smaller partners will run for 63 seats in the Congress and 17 seats in the Senate after weeks of intense talks and hard negotiating.

Yadav’s choice to participate in the Nyay Yatra suggests a calculated strategy to forge alliances and promote harmony among opposition groups ahead of the pivotal Lok Sabha elections. Given that the two leaders agree on a number of social and political topics, it is anticipated that the voters in the area would be greatly impacted by their partnership.

In order to accommodate Rahul Gandhi’s long-standing promise to give two special lectures on February 27 and 28 at his alma mater, Cambridge University in the UK, the Congress had announced that February 26 to March 1 would be break days for the yatra.

It said that he would also be present at significant meetings in New Delhi during this time. On March 2, at 2:00 pm, the yatra will continue from Dholpur. After that, it will enter Madhya Pradesh, passing through the districts of Morena, Gwalior, Shivpuri, Guna, Shajapur, and Ujjain, among others.

Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to offer prayers at the Shri Mahakaleshwar Temple in Ujjain on March 5. During his Bharat Jodo Yatra, he had prayed at the shrine on November 29, 2022.

The Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra began in Manipur on January 14 and is expected to travel 6,713 miles in 67 days, stopping in 110 districts across 15 states, before ending on March 20 in Mumbai.