Bharat Jodo Yatra: On Monday, 12 opposition parties will join the Bharat Jodo Yatra’s closing ceremony, sources revealed today. There were 21 parties invited to the event, but some declined because of security reasons, they claimed.

Bharat Jodo Yatra: The  opposition Parties in the closing ceremony

Samajwadi Party, TDP, and Trinamool Congress are some of the parties that would not attend the event.

MK Stalin-led Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Tejashwi Yadav-led Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United), Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena, CPI(M), CPI, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), Kerala Congress, Farooq Abdullah-led Jammu & Kashmir National Conference, Mehbooba Mufti’s Jammu and Kashmir People’s Democratic Party (PDP), and Shibu Soren’s Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) will attend the function in Srinagar.

Along with her brother Rahul Gandhi, Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra participated in the Yatra on Saturday. The Yatra had been postponed on Friday due to an alleged security breach, and it restarted from the Chersoo hamlet in Awantipora on Saturday. Mehbooba Mufti, the leader of the People  Democratic Party (PDP), also took part in the yatra at Awantipora.

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There were no security lapses during the yatra, according to the local police. On Saturday, Vijay Kumar, the Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) for the region, rejected the accusations and asserted that there had been no security lapses during the campaign.

Letter to Amit Shah

As a result of Congressman Rahul Gandhi’s “security failure” on January 27, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday, pleading for his personal assistance in providing proper security for the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir.

“We are expecting a huge gathering to join the yatra over the next two days and also the function that will be held on January 30 at Srinagar. Many senior Congress leaders and leaders of other important political parties are attending the culmination functions to be held on January 30,” Mr. Kharge said in his letter.

“I shall be grateful if you could personally intervene in this matter and advise the concerned officials to provide adequate security till the culmination of the yatra and the function on January 30 at Srinagar,” the Congress president said in his letter to Amit Shah.

The Kanyakumari to Kashmir Yatra traveled 3,970 kilometers through 12 states and two union territories in roughly 145 days, beginning on September 7 at the southernmost point of the nation and concluding on January 30 in Srinagar.