Author and activist Tushar Gandhi on Friday joined Rahul Gandhi during the Maharashtra leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, a mass program of the Congress. Congress shared a photograph of the duo from the yatra and said that “Gandhi-Nehru always came together to save the country in crisis”, an apparent reference to their lineage – Rahul Gandhi and Tushar Gandhi are Jawaharlal Nehru’s great-grandsons. respectively Mahatma Gandhi.
The yatra resumed the day’s journey from Balapur in Akola district around 6:00 am and reached Shegaon a few hours later, where Tushar Gandhi joined her. In a tweet on Thursday, Tushar Gandhi said Shegaon is his birthplace. ”I will join the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Shegaon on 18. Shegaon is also my birth station. The train my mother traveled on, 1 Dn. Howrah Mail Via Nagpur halted at Shegaon station on January 17, 1960 when I was born!” he said. The Bharat Jodo Yatra entered Maharashtra on November 7 in Nanded district after starting on September 7 from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu. far Nanded region , Hingoli, Washim and Akola in Maharashtra.The jatra will enter Burhanpur in Madhya Pradesh on November 20 night from Jalgaon Jamod in Buldhana district and take a break on November 21, the party said.
On Thursday, Rahul Gandhi targeted the late Hindutva ideologue VD Savarkar, saying he had helped the British rulers and written a mercy plea to them out of fear. Gandhi doubled down on his claims and showed documents from 1920 that contained a letter written by Savarkar to the British. “I will read the last line which says ‘I beg to remain your most obedient servant’ and is signed by V D Savarkar, which shows that he helped the British,” Gandhi said while interacting with the media. A complaint was filed against Gandhi at the Thane Nagar police station, saying that his statements had hurt the sentiments of local citizens.
