Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kashmir: The yatra resumed from Chersu area of Awantipora where former JK chief minister Mehbooba Mufti along with her daughter and mother joined the padyatra led by Rahul Gandhi. Rahul Gandhi’s sister and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi along with other Congress leaders joined the yatra near Lethpora area in Pulwama.
Congress leader and MP Rahul Gandhi, who is in the final leg of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kashmir, paid tribute to the CRPF jawans killed in the Pulwama terror attack in 2019. The place where over 40 CRPF personnel were killed in a deadly terrorist attack.
The Bharat Jodo Yatra, which started from Kanyakumari on September 7, has reached Pantha Chowk area on the outskirts of Srinagar and will move inside Srinagar tomorrow. The yatra will end in Srinagar on January 30 and Rahul Gandhi will address a public meeting.
Congress general secretary in-charge communications, AICC, Jairam Ramesh while talking to reporters said that Bharat Jodo Pad Yatra will end after tomorrow, he said, “Bharat Jodo Yatra is not about alliance between political parties. Its election and other The processes concerned have nothing to do with it. It is for uniting India,” he said at the PCC headquarters in Srinagar.
Jairam Ramesh said that unlike yesterday the security arrangements were adequate. He further said that restoration of the democratic process and restoration of the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir is the topmost priority at present.
Ramesh further said that in a total of 136 days, Rahul Gandhi led a yatra, which covered 4080 kms in 116 days, in which people from different walks of life participated and extended their support.
In J&K too, the yatra was organized in five districts each in J&K, while a main and concluding ceremony will be held on January 30 and a flag hoisting ceremony will be held at the PCC headquarters in Srinagar tomorrow. He further said that the main function would be held at the Sher-e-Kashmir Stadium in Srinagar.