Several vehicles, including those of family members of the former MP, also followed the convoy right from Sabarmati jail in Ahmedabad in Gujarat. A battery of journalists also followed the police convoy giving live updates about the movement.
Thousands of Dalit people funded a symbolic gesture of gifting the Indian parliament a 10-tonne coin calling for the realisation of Ambedkar's dream of untouchability-free India. They were stopped at Haryana's borders.