Srinagar, Jan 29: Amid tight security measures, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and party’s General secretary Priyanka Gandhi Sunday unfurled the Tricolour and sang the national anthem at historic Lal Chowk in Srinagar.
The ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ reached the final destination from south India’s Kanyakumari after covering 4,080 km in 137 days.
“By hoisting the Tricolour at Lal Chowk, the promise made to India was fulfilled today,” Rahul Gandhi tweeted. “Hate will lose, love will always win. There will be a new dawn of hope in India”, he said.
Earlier, Congress resumed the yatra from Panthachowk and marched towards Lal Chowk. In an unscheduled move, Gandhi, who was otherwise scheduled to unfurl the Tricolour on January 30 at PCC headquarters in Srinagar, headed for historic Lal Chowk and hoisted the flag near GhantaGhar.
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh in a tweet said “75 years ago, India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled the national flag for the first time at Lal Chowk. Today at noon after the completion of the Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, Rahul Gandhi unfurled the national flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar.
In another tweet, Ramesh said “Rahul Gandhi was supposed to unfurl the national flag on Jan 30th in PCC office, since permission to do so elsewhere wasn’t given. Last evening, the State administration allowed him to do so in Lal Chowk, but under condition that it should be done today on 29th at the end of Bharat Jodo Yatra.”
He said Gandhi has walked for 137 days as part of his yatra and covered around 4,080 kilometres in around 47 districts of the country.
