BANGALORE: Karnataka's Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Thursday said that the Congress' "Bharat Jodo Yatra," with the participation of the party's premier leadership- Sonai, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, will have no influence.

He denied the assertions that the state-wide rallies and leader visits that the ruling BJP was preparing to counter the Congress yatra were organised much earlier.

Naturally, all party leaders will work for their own party; Sonia Gandhi has already walked for half a mile and left, so nothing to worry about. In answer to a question on the effect of Sonia, Priyanka, and Rahul Gandhi's marching in the state as part of the yatra, Bommai remarked, "As far as we are concerned, we have nothing to do with it and it doesn't create any influence.

In response to a question on the state-wide rallies and leader travel that the ruling BJP intended to oppose the Congress yatra, he replied that everything had been prepared far before.

As I had mentioend earlier there will be six rallies, and this one will be one among them. We had originally planned to hold the rally before Dasara, but we changed our minds because of the assembly session.

Sonia Gandhi, the head of the Congress, took part in the Bharat Jodo Yatra on Thursday, returning to a party public event after a long gap.

Sonia Gandhi walked beside her son Rahul Gandhi and other leaders in the Mandya district for a few kilometres while party supporters applauded and shouted slogans.

When asked if he would be going to New Delhi to discuss the expansion of the cabinet with the BJP central leadership, the CM just responded, "I will let you know before going."

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