Pak minister on Article 370 restoration: On same page with Congress alliance
"They (the National Conference-Congress alliance) have made it an election issue. Pakistan and the National Conference-Congress alliance are on the same page in Jammu and Kashmir to restore Article 370 and 35A," said Pakistani defence minister Khawaja Asif.
Does it make Sickularism proud ? Can anything be more shameful ?
Union Home Minister Amit Shah tweets, "Pakistan's Defence Minister's statement about Congress and JKNC's support on Article 370 and 35A has once again exposed Congress. This statement has once again made it clear that Congress and Pakistan have the same intentions and agenda."
"For the last few years, Rahul Gandhi has been standing with every anti-India force, hurting the sentiments of the countrymen... Congress Party and Pakistan forget that there is Modi Government at the centre, hence neither Article 370 nor terrorism is going to return in Kashmir," Shah said.
Asif has said that the Shehbaz Sharif government and the Congress-National Conference alliance were on the same page on the issue of restoration of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir !!
The remark comes in the midst of Assembly elections in J&K, the first since the erstwhile state's special status was scrapped on Aug 5, 2019.
While the National Conference has vowed to restore Article 370, the Congress has been completely silent about it and has not even mentioned it in its manifesto. The Congress has, however, promised its commitment towards restoring full statehood status to Jammu and Kashmir.
The revocation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the erstwhile state into two union territories has remained an emotive issue for the people of Jammu and Kashmir, particularly those in the Valley. The restoration of Article 370 has prominently featured in the manifestos of the National Conference and Mehbooba Mufti's PDP.
The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir voted in its first assembly election in a decade on Wednesday, September 18.
Voting began at 7 am and continued until 6 pm. The overall voter turnout in the Union Territory during the first phase of the assembly election was recorded at around 61 per cent.
New Delhi or the BJP as the ruling party in the centre has been projecting the enthusiasm as a vindication of their policies and an indication that Kashmiris have given up their aspiration for separatism.
“The way people are coming forward in huge numbers, aspiring to cast their vote, speaks about the success of India’s democracy and India’s constitution,” said Nirmal Singh, senior BJP leader and former deputy chief minister of the region.
“We have been able to finish terrorism … What could not be done in seventy years has been achieved in the last five years under the vision of prime minister Narendra Modi.”
On the other hand, the remark from the Pakistani minister gave the BJP fresh ammo to hit out at Congress, saying the party was always seen on the side of those "inimical to India's interest".
"Pakistan, a terrorist state, endorses Congress and National Conference's position on Kashmir. How is it that, from (Gurpatwant) Pannun to Pakistan, Rahul Gandhi and his Congress are always seen on the side of those inimical to India's interest?" BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya tweeted.
Recently, Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun endorsed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's remarks on the "existential threat" to the Sikh community in India.
BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla also pounced upon the Congress, saying "the cat is out of the bag". "Was there ever any doubt? For the sake of opposing PM Modi, they can even stand with Pakistan," he said.
Analysts feel the good turnout in the first phase of polling has irked anti-India forces and hence the statement from the Pakistani Defence minister.
The fact of the matter is due to abrogation of Article 370, all efforts and investment made in terrorism by Pakistan over four decades has come to a naught leaving Islamabad and especially the ISI and Pakistan's military establishment unnerved.
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