Haven’t given up on people of J&K, says Ram Madhav

NEWDELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has not given up on the people of Kashmir, even though it has pulled out of the coalitiongovernmentin Jammuand Kashmir, party general secretary Ram Madhav said on Tuesday. The party has also, not given up on its demand for the abrogation of Article 370 and 35A, he said.

Speaking at the launch of ‘RSS A View to the Inside’ a book by Shridhar Damle and Walter Andersen, Madhav said: “We have left the government in Kashmir, we have not left Kashmir.” His comment came in response to a question on how the BJP and the RSS had reconciled to putting contentious issues such as the abrogation of Article 370 on the back burner while it ran a coalition government with the PDP.

In June, Madhav, considered the architect of the coalition, announced that the BJP was pulling out of the government with PDP after three years of alliance.

DENGUE CONTINUE TO HAUNT

Over 150 new cases of dengue have been reported from different areas in last one week, taking the numbers from 420 to 697. Bilaspur remains the worst affected district with 344 positive cases, followed by Solan with 332 positive cases. Earlier, these numbers were 237 and 178, respectively. State’s surveillance officer said most of the cases have

been reported from Dyar area, adjoining the Bilaspur town.

State’s health authority confirmed that 33 fresh cases of dengue were registered on August 6.

Guidelines have been issued to the hospitals and its medicines have been provided to the subhealth centres, said health department director Dr Baldev Thakur.