Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will visit Poonch in the Jammu region on Saturday to meet the families of those killed and affected by the recent Pakistani shelling, AICC general secretary Jairam Ramesh said.
This will be the second visit of Gandhi, the leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha, to Jammu and Kashmir after the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in which 25 tourists and one local were killed.
"Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Shri @RahulGandhi will be visiting Poonch tomorrow May 24th to meet the families bereaved during the shelling by Pakistan very recently," Ramesh said in a post on X.
"Earlier he had visited Srinagar on April 25th to meet with those injured during the brutal Pahalgam terror attack and many other stakeholders. He had also met with the LG and the CM then," he said.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="hi" dir="ltr">लोकसभा में विपक्ष के नेता श्री <a href="https://twitter.com/RahulGandhi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RahulGandhi</a> कल यानी 24 मई को पुंछ का दौरा करेंगे, जहां वे हाल ही में पाकिस्तान की गोलाबारी में मारे गए लोगों के शोकाकुल परिजनों से मुलाकात करेंगे।<br><br>इससे पहले, 25 अप्रैल को वे श्रीनगर गए थे, जहां उन्होंने पहलगाम में हुए बर्बर आतंकी हमले में घायल…</p>— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) <a href="https://twitter.com/Jairam_Ramesh/status/1925779944782668089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 23, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
During his visit to Jammu and Kashmir last month following the attack, Gandhi had said the idea behind the terror strike was to divide the people of the country and it was imperative that India stood united to defeat terrorism once and for all