Accompanied by J-Ok Pradesh Congress chief Vikar Rasool Wani, working president Raman Bhalla and a whole lot of volunteers carrying the tricolour, Gandhi entered Samba district’s Tapyal-Gagwal after crossing Londi verify level at round 8 am and was greeted by enthusiastic employees and supporters ready on either side of the street.
After protecting about 25-km distance, the march can have an evening halt at Chak Nanak earlier than restarting from Samba’s Vijaypur for Jammu, the place it’s going to attain on Monday.
Officers mentioned sufficient safety preparations are in place for Gandhi with police, CRPF and different safety businesses preserving a decent vigil to make sure a peaceable march.
Safety has been additional beefed up throughout Jammu and Kashmir within the wake of dual bomb blasts in Narwal space on the outskirts of Jammu metropolis on Saturday, that left 9 folks injured.
Police suspect that IEDs had been used to hold out the dual explosions in an SUV parked in a restore store and in a car at a close-by junkyard at Transport Nagar space of Narwal.
The phobia assault comes at a time when safety businesses within the area are on excessive alert within the wake of the Yatra of the Congress and the upcoming Republic Day celebrations. The march began from Kanyakumari on September 7 and entered Jammu and Kashmir from Punjab on Thursday.
The yatra is scheduled to finish in Srinagar on January 30 with hoisting of nationwide flag at Congress headquarters by Gandhi.
