SRINAGAR: After a week-long Ladakh tour, the Congress leader and Member of Parliament, Rahul Gandhi will be traveling to Srinagar on a two-day personal visit and will be joined by his mother Sonia Gandhi the next day.
Quoting sources, KNO reported that Rahul Gandhi, who is presently in Ladakh, will first reach Sonamarg at 2:00 Pm on Friday where he would likely get a reception from the Jammu & Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) led by its President Vikar Rasool Wani.
“Rahul will later arrive in Srinagar by road where his mother and former All India Congress Committee (AICC) President, Sonia Gandhi will join him on Saturday,” sources said. “Rahul would likely stay one night in a houseboat at Nigeen Lake here while he would spend another night in a local hotel in the same area.”
A JKPCC leader said Rahul Gandhi is purely on a personal visit here and would not chair any meeting of party leaders in Srinagar in the next two days.
This will be the first visit of Rahul Gandhi to Srinagar after the culmination of Bharat Jodo Yatra in Srinagar in January this year.
Pertinently, Rahul spent his one week in Ladakh where he interacted with the local youth there and also celebrated his father and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s birthday on August 20 at Pangong Lake.
Earlier, Congress on August 22 had said Rahul Gandhi’s Ladakh Yatra is a continuation of the Bharat Jodo Yatra as his trip to the Union Territory was in fulfilment of a commitment made to a delegation from there during his cross-country march.
