Actor-turned-politician Urmila Matondkar joined Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, which resumed from the chilly town of Nagrota on Tuesday morning. Matondkar, a popular Bollywood star of the 1990s, joined Gandhi soon after the march began near the army cantonment around 8 a.m. amid tight security, with Congress workers and supporters lining the route to welcome her. Lined up on the roadside.
Matondkar (48) resigned from the Congress in September 2019 after a short association of six months and joined the Shiv Sena in 2020. Dressed in a cream-coloured traditional Kashmir pheran (loose gown) and a beanie cap, Matondkar chatted with Gandhi as he marched. Together. Noted writer Perumal Murugan and J&K Pradesh Congress Committee president Vikar Rasool Wani, his predecessor GA Mir and former minister Tariq Hamid Karra also joined hundreds of others carrying the tricolor in their hands.
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The yatra, which started from Kanyakumari on September 7, entered Jammu and Kashmir from Punjab on Thursday and reached Jammu city on Monday. The march is scheduled to halt for two nights at Ramban and Banihal along the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway before concluding in Srinagar with a grand rally at the Sher-e-Kashmir Cricket Stadium on January 30. The 65-member strong Ladakh delegation was led by one of the members of the delegation, who said that Ladakh Territorial Congress President Nawang Rigzin Jora joined Gandhi at the beginning of the visit and briefed him about the issues and concerns of his people.
A group of Kashmiri Pandit migrant women, dressed in their traditional attire and carrying flower petals, waited outside the famous Kol-Kandoli temple to welcome Gandhi. “We have been wandering in Jammu for the last three decades after our migration from Kashmir. We have come here to welcome Gandhi as he could help in our rehabilitation in the valley as it was the Congress which had uplifted the community by providing employment in the past. worked for.” package to our youth,” Geeta Kaul told PTI.
He said that the biggest issue for him is the rehabilitation of the community and the BJP has miserably failed in this mission and neglected us. After running for over one-and-a-half hours, the yatra will halt and resume near Army Gate Rehambal in Udhampur district at 2 pm.
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