The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Tuesday confirmed the participation of party president Akhilesh Yadav in the Congress party’s Bharat Jodo Nyaya Yatra in Amethi or Raebareli, when the yatra reaches Uttar Pradesh.
“Our national president Akhilesh Yadav received an invitation from Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge to join the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra of Rahul Gandhi. Mr. Yadav, while congratulating the Congress, accepted the invitation for the Yatra which will enter U.P. on February 16 and likely to participate when it reaches Amethi or Raebareli,” a statement from the SP read.
In U.P., the yatra will join hands with the social justice movement and the SP’s PDA (pichda or backward classes, Dalit, and alpsankhyak or minorities) plank.