The tricolour was hoisted in the presence of party MP Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi. Srinagar had received heavy rain and snowfall on Sunday night and photographs from this morning showed the Gandhi siblings playing with snow at the Congress party headquarters.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday unfurled the national flag at the clock tower of Lal Chowk in Srinagar as the Bharat Jodo Yatra entered its final day before concluding on Monday.
A glass igloo restaurant in the middle of the snow-covered mountains in Gulmarg has become the centre of attraction for tourists in the hill station in Kashmir.
Targeting the Centre over the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said that Union Home Minister Amit Shah and other BJP leaders should walk from Jammu to Lal Chowk if the situation is so good in the Union Territory.
On the eve of the culmination of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said the foot march has been one of the "most beautiful and profound experiences of his life."
He questioned the hoisting of the tricolour by Rahul Gandhi at Lal Chowk in Kashmir and said that Rahul Gandhi does not know how to respect the tricolour. "Where he unfurled the tricolour, his own cut-out picture was placed higher than the tricolour," said the Deputy CM.
Amidst the nationwide 'Pathaan' frenzy, the latest Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone starrer Bollywood film has packed up movie theatres in Srinagar to the brim.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajya Sabha MP Jugal Thakor Lokhandwala on Sunday hit out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and alleged that the grand old party is trying to toe the line of the BJP by unfurling the Tricolor in Srinagar.
Congress had earlier planned to hoist the national flag at the PCC Office on Monday to mark the end of Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir.