PDP was biased against Jammu, Ladakh, ignored development: Shah
JAMMU: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) pulled out of the government in Jammu and Kashmir as the Peoples Democratic Party, led by chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, was grossly discriminating against Jammu and Ladakh regions, said saffron party chief Amit Shah on Saturday.
In his first visit to the state after the saffron party withdrew support from the government, Shah said Kashmir was an integral part of India and the BJP will never allow it to be disintegrated from the country.
“J&K is part of India due to the efforts of Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee,” Shah told a rally here to mark “martyrdom anniversary” of the leader. He also asked the Congress to apologise for the statements of its senior leaders Ghulam Nabi Azad and Saifuddin Soz on Kashmir and dared it to take action against the two leaders.
“Staying in power was not a priority for the BJP but welfare and development of J&K was its only objective,” Shah said, add- ing that Shah said that while Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened coffers providing Rs 80,000-crore package to J&K and personally visited the state over a dozen times, peace and development remained elusive.
He said that after the BJP withdrew support from the PDPled coalition government, the Congress “started showing its true colours” in anticipation of elections. “Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad made a statement which I cannot even repeat here. And immediately after it, Lashkar-eTaiba (LeT) supported that statement,” Shah said. Azad had said that “the army was killing more civilians than terrorists” in Jammu and Kashmir. Shah asked the Congress to explain the reason behind shared views between LeT and Azad.