Leaders of Kashmir-centric politicals, especially of the National Conference and PDP who joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra at Lakhanpur, Jammu, Banihal, and Awantipora, were conspicuously absent at the Tricolour unfurling ceremony at Lal Chowk on Sunday.
Changing the itinerary of the Bharat Jodo Yatra at the eleventh hour, Congress leaders unfurled the national flag at the Lal Chowk. Earlier, Congress said that unfurling the Tricolour at Lal Chowk is "the RSS agenda".