In  a  sharp swipe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi who was seen playing snow balls with his sister Priyanka Vadra in  Srinagar, Union Minister Anurag Thakur said  on Monday both should be thanking  Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the “changed situation in Kashmir”

The BJP also  slammed the Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Yatra as politically motivated, comprising of "hatemongers". It said  the party which "divided" the nation and society is now talking of unifying them.

After a video of Congress leader Rahul playing snowballs with sister Priyanka  in Srinagar on Monday went viral on social media, Thakur said, “You saw Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi playing with snowballs in Srinagar, but they forgot to thank PM Modi who abrogated Article 370 and 35A. After 2014, the situation in Kashmir changed completely. Now there is peace & tourism has also increased." .

“This is because PM Modi took steps for the betterment of the people of Jammu & Kashmir. In Bharat Jodo Yatra, people who worked to break India were seen instead of people who united India. They should answer what Congress wants to do with such people,"  the minister  further added.

Rahul-led Bharat Jodo Yatra which started from Kanyakumari on September 7 concluded in Srinagar on Monday.

Earlier, addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters here, party spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi mentioned several participants of the Yatra and questioned their credentials. Most of them had walked with Gandhi during different parts of the foot march.

"It was a politically motivated Yatra, during the Yatra, Congress leaders did beef party on roads of Kerala, Pastor George Ponniah termed land of India as impure," Trivedi said.

He said the former Congress president's co-travellers included Kanhaiya Kumar who was "associated with the tukde tukde gang", and Digvijay Singh who raised questions over the surgical strike. "With these hatemongers what campaign of love of Rahul Gandhi is running."