Rahul Gandhi unfurls tricolour at Srinagar's Lal Chowk day before Bharat Jodo Yatra ends

Congress leader

unfurled the national flag at Srinagar’s Lal Chowk in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, a day before the Bharat Jodo Yatra end.

“Rahul Gandhi was supposed to unfurl

on January 30 in PCC [Pradesh Congress Committee] office, since permission to do so elsewhere wasn’t given,” Congress General Secretary (communications) Jairam Ramesh tweeted.

“Last evening, state administration allowed him to do so in Lal Chowk, but under condition that it should be done today on 29 at end of Bharat Jodo Yatra.”

Gandhi was accompanied by his sister and party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra at the event.

Last week, Rajni Patil, the official in charge of Congress’ Jammu and Kashmir desk, had said that unfurling the flag at Lal Chowk was part of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh agenda, reported The Indian Express.

“We do not believe in the agenda of the RSS to hoist the Tricolour at Lal Chowk, where it has already flown high,” Patil had told the newspaper, adding that Gandhi will hoist the national flag on the January 30 at the party headquarters in Srinagar.

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