In Hyderabad, Telangana Congress leaders including state president Bomma Mahesh Kumar Goud, V Hanumantha Rao and Uttam Kumar Reddy joined a Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavna Yatra at Charminar to promote communal harmony and recall Rajiv's message. They accused the BJP of fostering religious and caste divisions, and Reddy said Rahul Gandhi could become India’s next Prime Minister amid changing political winds.