J&K Government U-Turn on Amarnath Yatra Cancellation

J&K Government U-Turn on Amarnath Yatra Cancellation.

The Jammu and Kashmir government has withdrawn a press release that said the Amarnath Yatra 2020 has been canceled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

This news of Yatra Cancellation has spread across India and People were disheartened.

It’s to be well mentioned that Last year, Amarnath yatra pilgrims had to cut short their stay in the holy shrine in Jammu and Kashmir after there were intelligence inputs of terror threats post the scrapping of Article 370 in the erstwhile-state.

A press note released earlier today said the pilgrimage scheduled from June 23 to August 3 was canceled by the Amarnath shrine board during a video conference meeting held by the LG J&K.

Taking note of the same Omar Abdullah tweeted “Once again proving the point that these days nothing to do with J&K actually gets decided in J&K,” he said.

Also See: Shri Amarnathji Yatra 2020 Canceled due to outbreak of COVID-19