The state Congress will organise a Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Yatra Commemoration Day on October 19 at the Charminar at 10:30am.
Talking to reporters at Gandhi Bhavan, PCC General Secretary G Niranjan said that the yatra would begin with the hoisting of the Congress' flag by PCC president Botsa Satyanarayana. Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, Deputy Chief Minister Damodar Rajanarasimha and other ministers and leaders will also participate, he said.
The Chief Minister will also present the Sadbhavana Award to senior journalist Potturi Venkateshwara Rao on the occasion.
Niranjan said that it was in 1990 when former minister Rajiv Gandhi had launched a Sadbhavna Yatra from Charminar to diffuse the communal tension created across the country due to BJP leader L K Advani's Rath Yatra. He said that it was the same Sadbhavana Yatra that claimed Rajiv Gandhi's life in a meeting in Tamil Nadu. (INN)