Actor-turned-politician Urmila Matondkar joined Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra as it resumed from the garrison town of Nagrota on a cold Tuesday morning,
Matondkar, a popular Bollywood star of the 1990s, joined Gandhi shortly after the march started from near the army garrison around 8 am amid tight security, with Congress workers and supporters lined up on the road along the route to welcome them.
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-colored traditional Kashmir Pheran (loose gown) and a beanie cap, Matondkar was interacting with Gandhi as they marched along.
Noted author Perumal Murugan and J-K Pradesh Congress committee president Vikar Rasool Wani, his predecessor G A Mir and former minister Abdul Hamid Karra also joined them alongside hundreds of others carrying the tricolor in their hands.
The yatra, which started from Kanyakumari on 7 September, entered Jammu and Kashmir from Punjab on Thursday and reached Jammu city on Monday.
