Every child in Jammu and Kashmir is Indian: PM Modi
Wahid Bhat
SRINAGAR: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today addressed the rally in support of BJP candidate Dr. Jitendra Singh in Kathua.
Modi said while attacking the Opposition that in a big turn in Jammu and Baramulla, the people here have given a strong response to the militants who are in the hands of the militants, the Pak-led opportunists and the despondent villagers. You have proven the power of India’s democracy by voting heavily in the first phase.
PM Modi said people of J&K cannot be kept hostage or bounded labourers to some “handful of people”. PM Modi was referring to National Conference leader Omar Abdullah’s demand for a separate prime minister for Jammu and Kashmir and Mehbooba Mufti’s remark that abrogation of article 370 can lead J&K free from India.
He said “Abdullah and Mufti families have “ruined” three generations in the state. They laid seize to the state for three generations. For the better future of the state, they need to be voted out.”
The bright future of Jammu and Kashmir can be ensured only after their departure. They can bring their entire clan into the field, can abuse Modi as much as they want but they won’t be able to divide this nation, the prime minister said.
Modi said, “You have proven the strength of democracy in India, in the first phase of elections”.
Lashing out at the Congress, the prime minister said, “Congress had been infected with germs. The grand old party’s manifesto promise that AFSPA will be removed from the state if they come to power to demoralise the security forces”.
“Can a patriot speak like this? Shouldn’t our security forces have a safety net,” he asked people at the rally.
“Days have gone when threats used to cow down the government of India. This is new India, which will enter (into Pakistan) to kill terrorists and expose their supporters too. You are not choosing just a MP, but it is your veto on new strategy and new policy of this nation,” the PM said.
Terming Congress, the NC and PDP a “highly impure coalition”, Modi said that day in and day out they (NC and PDP) are threatening to sever J&K from India. “They threaten of blood shed… Of a separate Prime Minister.”
Taking a dig at them, he said that Pakistan was also threatening us with nuclear (power)? “Has steam of that nuclear threat fizzled out?”, he poses question to people. People responded with yes.
Modi further said they (NC and PDP) “are also threatening us with do pradhan (two PMs, one each in J&K and India). I want to make them clear once for all. They have not got Jammu and Kashmir as inheritance in writing. J&K is integral part of India”.
Modi said that every child in Jammu and Kashmir, Leh and Ladakh is Indian.
“The citizens of this state cannot be kept hostage or bounded labourers to some handful of people.
“It is on this soil Shyama Prasad Mukherjee unfurled the tricolour and had then rejected the ideology of ‘two constitutions, two PMs and two flags’ and his ideals is ‘sacred paper’ to BJP. Nobody can erase it”, the PM said.
Modi said that this Chowkidaar is committed to it and will stand firm on it.
“Modi will stand like a wall before the dynastic families of J&K supported by Congress. They are like occupants of this land for the past three generations. But Modi neither fears nor can be threaten by any one”, he said.
Modi also accused the Congress of politicising the Jallianwala Bagh Centenary.
“The Vice President was in Jallianwala Bagh for the government event. He paid tribute to martyrs but Congress CM was not there”, he said, charging that nationalism was an insult for the opposition.
The Punjab chief minister, he said, insulted the Jallianwala Bagh memorial by not attending the government’s memorial on the day of the centenary.
Modi said he can understand the kind of pressure on Amarinder Singh.
Modi said that it was their policies that the Kashmiri Pandits had to flee from Kashmir. He asked, can Congress give justice to Kashmiri Pandits? Can Congress give justice to 1984 riots victims?
Calling Congress’s NYAY scheme a ‘big sham’, he warned the people. PM said, “I’m committed to an honourable return and rehabilitation of the Kashmiri Pandits.”
PM Modi also attacked Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh. He said that Captain Amarinder Singh was busy in ‘bhakti’ of ‘Congress Parivar’. He went to Jallianwala Bagh with naamdar (Rahul Gandhi) but didn’t find it right to attend the event with Vice President. This is the difference between ‘Rashtrabhakti’ and ‘Parivar bhakti.”
PM added, “I have known Captain Amarinder Singh for a long time. I have never raised a question on his patriotism. I can understand the kind of pressure which must have been put on him for such ‘Parivar Bhakti’.”
Omar, Mehbooba hits back
National Conference leader Omar Abdullah and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) chief Mehbooba Mufti hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday for his remarks that their families destroyed lives of three generations in Jammu and Kashmir and should be kept out of power to ensure the state’s development.
Former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti tweeted saying, “India is not Modi and Modi isn’t India.”
In a series of two tweets, Mehbooba Mufti called out the BJP and said that first they would call them traitors and at the second moment, they would be forging an alliance.
Mufti tweeted, “Why does PM bash political families pre elections & then sends his envoys to stitch alliances with the very same parties? NC in 99 & PDP in 2015. Why do they choose power over Article 370 then ? BJP with its noxious agenda of banishing Muslims & minorities wants to divide India.”
The Jammu and Kashmir leader further added in her tweet that “I for once have never lowered political discourse by abusing opponents inc BJP. In order to gain sympathy & consequently power, PM is misleading people by equating himself with the nation. Every Indian owes his allegiance to India not PM Modi. India is not Modi & Modi isn’t India.”
National Conference (NC) leader Omar Abdullah hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his remark on the ‘Abdullah’s and Muftis’ families
Taking to Twitter, Omar further accused PM Modi of coming out with the same slogan ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha election, questioning if this was another false promise (jumla) of the prime minister.
“We have to rid Jammu and Kashmir of these two political families” says Modi ji in 2014 & then promptly goes & makes not one but TWO members of the Mufti family CM of J&K. In 2019 Modi ji says “we have to rid J&K of these two political families”. Another jumla Modi ji?: tweeted Omar.
He tweeted another post in which former chief minister late Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and PM Modi are seen hugging.
Omar tweeted jibing “look how happy he is to seal an alliance with one of the families he wants to rid J&K politics of”.
“This is how much Modi ji believes what he says. Look how happy he is to seal an alliance with one of the families he wants to rid J&K politics of,” tweeted Omar.
PM politicising Jallianwala tragedy: Capt Amarinder
Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh hit back at PM Modi for playing “dirty politics” on a sombre occasion.
Accusing PM Modi of playing “dirty politics”, Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh alleged that the central government had deliberately chosen to hold a “parallel event” instead of supporting the initiatives and programmes of the state government.
The event was organised in Amritsar on Saturday by the Centre and it was attended by Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu.
Singh claimed in a statement that he had personally approached the prime minister several times over the last two years to seek support for ensuring that the occasion is commemorated in a befitting manner but the Centre had failed to respond suitably.
“Instead, the Modi government decided to hold its own event, quite evidently to score political brownie points in the backdrop of the Lok Sabha elections,” he alleged.
“This was truly shocking considering that the prime minister is the chairman of the Jallianwala Bagh Trust,” Singh said.
“Shocked at your remarks in Kathua on Jallianwala Bagh @narendramodi Ji. You used a sombre occasion to play dirty politics, conveniently ignoring your own government’s decision to hold a parallel event instead of extending support to my govt, which we’d been requesting for 2 yrs,” Singh tweeted.
