Hyderabad, Feb. 3 -- There was a perfect setting for the conclusion of the "Bharat Jodo Yatra" heavy snowfall on Monday greeted Congress leaders at Sher-e-Kashmir cricket stadium in Srinagar that has been witness to many promises being made to the people of Kashmir, and then getting lost in the political turbulences in the country. Rahul Gandhi, the star walker of his foot march from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, is the first scion of the Nehru-Gandhi family who spoke from the ramparts of the stadium, where BJP's stalwart and statesman prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee had extended India's hand of friendship to Pakistan in April 2003.

Rahul Gandhi had many firsts to his credit. He is the first leader who arrived in Kashmir by leading a foot ...