Srinagar, Jan 17 (KNS): All India Congress Committee In-charge for Jammu & Kashmir and a Member of Parliament, Rajni Patil Tuesday said that the leaders who had left the party earlier are coming back in the party.
She also said that the Jammu and Kashmir administration has granted permission for a mega rally to mark the culmination of the Rahul Gandhi-led ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ at Srinagar’s Sher-e-Kashmir Stadium on January 30.
"Leaders of 23 political parties from across the country and people from abroad were expected to take part in the rally. We have received permission from the Jammu and Kashmir administration for the January 30 rally at Sher-e-Kashmir in Srinagar. The yatra’s Jammu and Kashmir leg will be the most successful with massive participation of people,” she said.
She also said that the rally will reach Jammu on January 23. “We are planning a rally in the city and have applied for permission from the administration. We are hopeful of getting it as well,” she added.
"One of the Congress delegation met the Additional Director-General of Police on Tuesday and discussed in detail the yatra’s security aspects. National Conference President Farooq Abdullah, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut and leaders of other parties will join the yatra in Lakhanpur," she added.
"NC Vice-President Omar Abdullah will join the yatra after it crosses the Banihal tunnel into Kashmir, while People’s Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti has informed that she and her mother and daughter would also join,” she said.
She futher said anyone who believed in Gandhi’s ideology of uniting the country and the philosophy of the Congress were welcome to be part of the yatra.(KNS)