Rahul Gandhi invokes Kashmiri Pandit origin during Jammu visit
Rahul Gandhi is on a two-day visit to Jammu. He visited the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in the Reasi district on Wednesday.
IANS | Jammu | September 10, 2021 3:54 pm
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Friday that he is a Kashmiri Pandit and feels at home whenever he visits Jammu and Kashmir.
Rahul Gandhi is on a two-day visit to Jammu. He visited the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in the Reasi district on Wednesday.
“My family is a Kashmiri Pandit family. A delegation of Kashmiri Pandits met me today.
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“They said the BJP has done nothing for them while the Congress had implemented many welfare schemes for them. I promise my Kashmiri Pandit brothers that I will do something for them.
“J&K has a special place in my heart, but I am pained also. There is brotherhood in J&K, but the BJP and the RSS are trying to break the bond of that brotherhood.”
He said the BJP had snatched away the statehood from the people of J&K which should be restored.
He raised his hand and said, “Hand means ‘Daro Mat’. You can see a hand in pictures of Lord Shiva and Wahe Guru.”
He said after J&K, he would also be visiting Ladakh.
He paid obeisance at the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine where he was accompanied by J&K Congress president G.A.Mir and many party workers and supporters during his 13-kilometre long trek to the shrine.
Interestingly, polling in the state was slightly higher than the last elections till the afternoon, with 37.3 per cent against 36.8 per cent in 2019 by 1 pm, but it came down substantially and the graph never went up after that.
utting an end to the speculations of him being fielded for the LS polls, Bali expressed keenness to work in his Assembly constituency, which had also been the constituency of his late father G S Bali, a four-time MLA and a former minister.
The Congress leader had wondered why the Central agencies had not questioned Pinarayi Vijayan despite multiple corruption charges being levelled against him