Today News Line JK

Senior Congress leader and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Saturday visited Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch district and met the victims of cross-border shelling by Pakistani troops during recent hostilities between the two countries.

The Poonch sector was witness to heightened artillery and mortar shelling after India carried out Operation Sindoor in Pakistan.

Gandhi visited the families of the victims and promised that he would raise their issues at the national level.

"Broken houses, scattered belongings, moist eyes, and painful stories of losing loved ones in every corner - these patriotic families bear the biggest burden of war with courage and dignity every time. Salute to their courage. I stand strongly with the victim families - I will definitely raise their demands and issues at the national level," he said in a post in Hindi.

The Congress leader also interacted with school students in Poonch and assured them that everything would become normal again.

"Now, you have seen danger and a little bit of a frightening situation, but don't worry, everything will come back to normal. Your way of responding to this problem should be that you study and play really hard and make a lot of friends in school," he told students.

"I spoke with the people and tried to understand their problems. They have requested me to raise this issue on the national level, and I will do that," Gandhi told reporters.