Sonia Gandhi arrives in Karnataka to join Bharat Jodo Yatra

Sonia will head from the Mercara Downs Golf Club helipad by road towards Kodagu where Rahul Gandhi is expected to join her for the next two days.

All the action involving the Congress is expected to shift to Karnataka for the next three days.

Rahul Gandhi on the Mysuru leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra. (Supplied)

Other than the Bharat Jodo Yatra, the AICC presidential election has been cresting the buzz in the Congress.

While Shahi Tharoor was in Telangana on Monday campaigning for the polls, Mallikarjun Kharge — the other contender — is returning to Karnataka.

They will a brief time with their families for two days as the Bharat Jodo Yatra takes a break.

“Sonia Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi will join the leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra on Friday, as it enters the Mandya district in the state,” Senior Congress leader Ramalinga Reddy told South First.

The yatra entered Karnataka on Saturday from Kerala, and had finished its leg in two districts — Chamarajanagar and Mysuru.

Rahul and team at Chamundeshwari temple. (Supplied)

After Rahul’s visit to the Khadi Centre in Badavanalu, where he paid tributes to Mahatma Gandhi on Gandhi Jayanti on Sunday, he, along with KPCC president DK Shivakumar, Karnataka Assembly Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah, and KPCC campaign committee president MB Patil, visited the Chamundeshwari temple and took the blessings of the deity.

Then he and the leaders visited the Suttur mutt and took the blessings of the senior pontiff.

The same day, Rahul and the Congress leaders visited the popular St Philomena’s Church and the renowned Masjid-e-Azam mosque in Mysuru.

They continued with the yatra’s leg towards Melkote and Pandavapura in the Mysuru district, heading towards Mandya.