BJP MLA Raja Singh and 11 of his family members escaped cloudburst tragedy from the flood during Amarnath yatra in J&K on Friday.
GoshaMahal BJP MLA Raja Singh and his family left the city and reached New Delhi on Wednesday. They could not use the helicopter service from New Delhi due to bad weather. However, they managed to reach Panchtarani on Thursday and stayed in a tent
The family reached Amarnath with the help of horses on Friday morning. They had darshan of Lord Shiva on the same day. “We were returning in the afternoon when suddenly we started hearing screams of the people. Devotees swept away in front of us in the flood water,” he said.
Fortunately, Raja Singh and his family managed to hire horse services and reached a safer place. As he was facing threat from terrorists, he was provided with special protection force and escorted him and his family till they reached Srinagar safely.
He released a short video on Saturday. He got emotional in it & said the situation could have been different if there was some delay while returning from Amarnath. He said hundreds of people from two Telugu States came for the yatra. The security forces were helping the devotees to send them to safe places.
Raja Singh said the family continued their journey to Vaishno Devi temple in J&K on Saturday and will return to Hyderabad on Monday.
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