Srinagar, Sep 10 (KNS): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that Jammu and Kashmir has a special place in my heart but he is pained also as there is brotherhood here but the BJP and RSS are trying to break the bond of that brotherhood. 

Addressing the rally at Jammu, the former Congress president said that the BJP-RSS combine were trying to break the composite culture and  a bond  of brotherhood of Jammu and Kashmir. He described his visit to be like a homecoming as his family had a long relationship with the state. 

The Congress leader also demanded that the government restore the statehood of Jammu and Kashmir. “I'm a Kashmiri Pandit and my family is Kashmiri Pandit. “I promise my Kashmiri Pandit brothers that I will do something for them,” he said. 

This is Gandhi's second visit to Jammu and Kashmir within a month. He was in Srinagar on August 9 and 10, when he inaugurated the party's new office in Srinagar city.

On Thursday, Rahul Gandhi paid obeisance at the Mata Vaishnodevi temple. He reached the shrine after undertaking a "13-km-long yatra" on foot through the Trikuta hills from Katra basecamp, said party leaders.(KNS)