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Sharad Pawar flags off Gandhi Shanti Yatra to oppose CAA
Updated On: 09 January, 2020 03:18 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
Pawar said that the BJP-led central government is using "dictatorial" policies that need to be answered through the non-violent way of Mahatma Gandhi

Sharad Pawar captured with other leaders during the flagging off of the Gandhi Shanti Yatra at the Gateway of India. Picture/Twitter Gaurav Sarkar
On Thursday morning, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar flagged off the 21-day long 'Gandhi Shanti Yatra' in order to protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). the 21-day long Yatra which began from the Gateway of India will culminate on January 30, the death anniversary of the Mahatma Gandhi at Raj Ghat in New Delhi.
Mahatma Gandhi will show the way to Indian people who are not happy with the current dispensation, says Sharad Pawar @PawarSpeaks while launching 'Gandhi Peace March' to be participated by Yashwant Sinha and others. @mid_day
— Dharmendra Jore (@dharmendrajore) January 9, 2020
While flagging off the event, Pawar said that Mahatma Gandhi will show the way to Indians who are not happy with the current dispensation. Besides Pawar, the event was also graced by Congress leader Prithviraj Chavan, former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha, Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi's Prakash Ambedkar, and several other leaders.


