‘Centre should call oppn leaders’ meet on J&K’

MATHURA: Terming the situation in Kashmir “deplorable” and claiming that it was beyond the control of the BJP-led government, Youth Congress national president Keshav Chand Yadav said here on Sunday that the Centre should convene a meeting of leaders of different opposition parties to discuss the issue.

“The foreign policy of this government has miserably failed. Its internal policy is also in doldrums. It should call a meeting of leaders of opposition parties to discuss the Kashmir issue,” Yadav told reporters here.

He said the fact that Pakistan’s flags were being unfurled in the Valley and jawans were getting killed or becoming victims of stone-pelting showed that as regards Kashmir, the policy of the current dispensation had completely failed, in spite of a BJP government at the Centre as well as in Jammu and Kashmir.

Yadav reminded Prime Minister Narendra Modi of his promise to bring 10 Pakistani heads for the head of one Indian soldier and alleged that the government had made even the killing of jawans a “jumla” (gimmickry).

“Without any plan to check the infiltration of terrorists and without deploying additional troops at the border, a truce was declared on account of Ramzan,” he said, adding that the worst part of the government’s Kashmir policy was that those who were loyal to India in the Valley also had to suffer.

Condemning certain remarks made by BJP leaders against Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, he said it exposed the culture of the saffron party. Yadav claimed that the people of the country would give a befitting reply to the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, when like-minded parties would elect Rahul Gandhi as the prime minister.