National Conference president Farooq Abdullah connected Wednesday returned to Srinagar by the precocious launched Vande Bharat Express aft an overnight enactment astatine the Vaishno Devi shrine successful Katra.
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"Had a large 'darshan' and I americium hopeful that each our prayers for peace, advancement and brotherhood astatine the shrine volition beryllium answered truthful that we tin determination guardant and our state besides marches up and we go portion of its improvement trajectory," the erstwhile main curate told reporters connected his return.
The 87-year-old Abdullah took his maiden thrust successful the Vande Bharat Express, which connects Kashmir to the remainder of the country, to scope Katra connected Tuesday. He stayed astatine the sanctum sanctorum overnight and took portion successful peculiar prayers astatine the shrine.
He was accompanied by his grandsons Zamir and Zahid, Jammu and Kashmir curate Satish Sharma, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's advisor Nasir Aslam Wani and respective National Conference legislators, including main spokesperson Tanvir Sadiq.
Asked astir his overnight enactment astatine the shrine, Abdullah said, "I felt precise happy."
"I came present by bid and this work is simply a caller opening for us. This volition not lone payment the pilgrims coming to sojourn Mata but besides beryllium beneficial for the pilgrims intending to sojourn the Amarnath cave shrine and they volition besides travel successful ample numbers. This volition payment tourism successful J&K," helium added.
Talking to PTI astatine the shrine precocious connected Tuesday night, curate Sharma said Abdullah had expressed his tendency to sojourn the Vaishno Devi shrine during his sojourn to Mela Kheer Bhawani successful Ganderbal connected June 3.
"We had darshan thrice aft reaching this beatified municipality (Katra), which is simply a large blessing for us...Abdullah walked 2 to 3 kilometres to scope the tribunal and we prayed for J&K to get backmost its mislaid glory. J&K is India's crown and we privation to scope that tallness again," helium said.
The curate said they prayed for India's advancement astatine the planetary level.
Sharma described the travel arsenic "historic" and said they volition retrieve it forever.
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