National Conference leader Omar Abdullah Friday alleged that the outer ring of security cordon maintained by Jammu and Kashmir Police \u201csimply vanished\u201d as soon as the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra entered the Kashmir Valley.<\/p>\n
The march was stopped on Friday near Qazigund, the gateway to the valley, after the Congress alleged breach of security and mismanagement of crowd by the Jammu and Kashmir administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m witness to this. The outer ring of the cordon which was maintained by the Jammu and Kashmir police simply vanished within minutes of Rahul Gandhi starting to walk,\u201d Abdullah said in a tweet.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had just crossed into Kashmir from Jammu and were looking forward to the 11-km walk but unfortunately it had to be cancelled,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Gandhi, after reaching Qazigund, started to walk towards Vessu in South Kashmir according to plan but Congress workers suddenly found that the outer cordon, which was to be managed by the Jammu and Kashmir police, had disappeared, the party\u2019s leaders alleged.<\/p>\n
Gandhi was scheduled to walk 11 km on Friday but had to call off after he barely walked 500 metres, they claimed.<\/p>\n
\u201cDue to security reasons, we had to stop the yatra temporarily as there was crowd mismanagement along the yatra route approved by the security apparatus,\u201d a senior congress leader claimed.<\/p>\n
Gandhi, who started his Bharat Jodo Yatra in Kanyakumari in September and ends it in Srinagar on January 30, said, \u201cIt\u2019s the Jammu and Kashmir administration\u2019s responsibility to provide security\u2026 I hope security will now be ensured for the remaining days of the yatra.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI had to call off my walk because I can\u2019t go against my security people,\u201d the Congress leader said.<\/p>\n
His party colleague Jairam Ramesh added that Gandhi\u2019s security team is holding discussions with the Jammu and Kashmir administration to ensure that everything goes off smoothly for the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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