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Former Minister and Malad Congress MLA Aslam Shaikh joins Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra with actors Rashmi Desai and Akanksha Puri
MUMBAI: Former Cabinet Minister and Malad Congress Malad MLA Aslam Shaikh joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra, led by former Congress President Rahul Gandhi.
Shaikh has joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra at several points along the route since it was launched by Rahul Gandhi. Actors Rashmi Desai and Akanksha Puri were also seeking walking with Rahul Gandhi and Aslam Shaikh.
Previously, film and Tv personalities such as Pooja Bhatt, Riya Sen, Sushant Singh, Mona Ambegaonkar and many others took part in the yatra.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra, a mass contact initiative of the Congress, began on September 7 from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu. It entered Maharashtra on November 7 in Nanded district and also covered Hingoli, Washim, Akola and Buldhana districts of the state.
The march entered its 74th day on Sunday. It began at 6 am from Bhendval in Buldhana after a night halt at Sairam Agro centre.
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Meanwhile, Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole on Sunday demanded the recall of Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari over his comments referring to Maratha king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj as an icon of ”olden days”.
Talking to reporters here, Patole said the Congress will work for an ”ideologically clean Maharashtra” and it will not tolerate the insult of social reformers Mahatma Phule, Savitribai Phule and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
Governor Koshyari on Saturday said Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was an icon of ”olden days” even as he referred to B R Ambedkar and Union minister Nitin Gadkari while talking about ”icons” in the state.
Patole claimed that Koshyari had made disparaging comments against Mahatma Phule and Savitribai Phule and hit out at the governor for comments on Shivaji Maharaj.
BJP leader Sudhanshu Trivedi had also made insulting comments against Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj that the latter apologised to Mughal king Aurangazeb five times, he claimed. ‘This will not be tolerated. The BJP has to publicly apologise and the governor has to be recalled,” Patole demanded.