Pithoragarh, Jul 20 (PTI) Former Union minister of state and senior BJP leader Meenakshi Lekhi, who was injured after falling from a horse in Tibet, has returned to India, leaving the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra midway, officials said on Sunday.
Lekhi, part of the second group of pilgrims undertaking the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra, fell from a horse in Darchin, Tibet, and sustained injuries. She was subsequently brought back to Gunji camp in India, from where she will be taken to a hospital by helicopter on Monday morning, they said.
Pithoragarh District Information Officer Santosh Chand said, “The injured devotee (Lekhi) in Darchin was taken to Lipulekh by Chinese officials, from where Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) personnel brought her to Gunji camp.” Darchin is the point from where the parikrama (circumambulation) of Mount Kailash and Mansarovar Lake begins.
Officials said the district administration was awaiting a window of clear weather to airlift her, but due to continued adverse conditions, she will be flown out on Monday.
Dharchula Sub-Divisional Magistrate Jitendra Singh said Lekhi will spend the night in Gunji.
“In Gunji, she is under the supervision of ITBP doctors. She will leave Gunji in the morning by helicopter,” he said. PTI DPT HIG HIG
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