Mahatma Gandhi's Great Grandson Joins Congress's Bharat Jodo Yatra

Mahatma Gandhi's great-grandson Tushar Gandhi joined Congress's Bharat Jodo Yatra in Maharashtra on Friday morning.

"We had given freedom to the country then and will unite the country today," Congress said in a tweet as it shared Rahul Gandhi and Tushar Gandhi's photo from Bharat Jodo Yatra.

Tushar Gandhi, an author and activist, joined the march in Shegaon in Akola district at 6am on Friday.

Congress started the march on September 7 and has been in Maharashtra since November 7.

On Thursday, Tushar shared a photo of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru as he announced that he would be joining the Congress march. "Shegaon is my Birth Station as well. The train my mother was travelling in, 1 Dn. Howrah Mail Via Nagpur had halted at Shegaon Station on 17th January 1960 when I was born!" he tweeted.