Rahul to begin Jammu visit today
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will be on a two-day visit to Jammu from Thursday, during which he will pay obeisance at the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine in Katra.
Gandhi will leave for Jammu on Thursday and will participate in the evening ‘aarti’ at the temple. He will stay at the shrine board’s guesthouse, sources said.
The former Congress chief will address a workers’ convention at Jammu on Friday and will meet separate delegations of local leaders during a luncheon meeting, they said.
He will return to Delhi late in the evening, the sources said.
Earlier on August 9 Rahul Gandhi visited Srinagar for a two-days. This was his first visit to the erstwhile state since the abrogation of Article 370.
The Wayanad MP is scheduled to inaugurate the party’s headquarters in the union territory. He had also interact with leaders and party workers during his visit. The Congress leader will hold series of deliberations with party leaders and workers.
The inauguration of the party headquarters was earlier delayed due to COVID-19. The Congress leadership of Jammu and Kashmir had approached Gandhi for a short visit, according to the local media reports.
Gandhi had also attend the wedding reception of Jammu and Kashmir party unit president Ghulam Ahmed Mir’s son. Those invited include National Conference (NC) president Farooq Abdullah and PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti.
