Last Update: January 23, 2023, 15:46 IST
File photo: Rahul Gandhi during the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Punjab. (Photo: Srishti Chowdhary)
Officials said all necessary arrangements have been made for the yatra, which began on September 7 from Kanyakumari and is scheduled to end on January 30 in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, with Gandhi addressing his party leaders at a mega rally. The national flag was hoisted at the headquarters.
Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Yatra resumed from Vijaypur in Samba district on Monday morning amid tight security and left for Jammu, the winter capital of the region, a few hours away.
Officials said all necessary arrangements have been made for the yatra, which began on September 7 from Kanyakumari and is scheduled to end on January 30 in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, with Gandhi addressing his party leaders at a mega rally. The national flag was hoisted at the headquarters. ,
Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijaya Singh, general secretary organization KC Venugopal, former minister Tariq Hamid Karra and former Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee president GA Mir along with a large number of party workers and supporters carrying the tricolor at Vijaypur along the Jammu-Pathankot highway joined with. As the march resumed around 7 am.
On the 129th day of the yatra, after covering a distance of 22 km, the marchers will reach Satwari Chowk in Jammu, where Gandhi will address a meeting before going to Sidhra for a night halt.
Officials said the yatra went smoothly amid tight security and reached Sarur at 8.45 am, where it halted for a tea break.
Wearing his trademark white T-shirt despite the morning chill, Gandhi is expected to enter the Jammu city limits in the next few hours, the official said.
As the march progressed, Gandhi was greeted by the public and party workers who waited for him standing on both sides of the road.
The traffic police has issued a detailed advisory to ensure smooth movement of traffic on the highway and other link roads in the city.
Security has been beefed up across the Union Territory in the wake of twin bomb blasts in Narwal area on the outskirts of Jammu city on Saturday, in which nine people were injured.
The blasts were triggered by suspected terrorists, who acted despite tight security arrangements ahead of a Gandhi-led visit and Republic Day celebrations.
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