Kolkata, Aug. 30 -- West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee and her party's general secretary Abhishek Banerjee are expected to skip Rahul Gandhi's Patna rally on September 1.

Former cricketer turned TMC's Baharampur MP Yusuf Pathan, and Lalitesh Tripathy have been asked to participate to represent the party, TMC sources said today.

Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi's "Voter Adhikar Yatra" is scheduled to end on September 1 in Bihar's capital city, Patna, with a padyatra (foot march), instead of a rally at Gandhi Maidan, as announced earlier.

The 16-day Yatra, which began on August 17 from Sasaram, would culminate after traversing a distance of 1,300 km across 23 districts in the Assemb...