Hindustan Times (Lucknow)

‘JAIL FOR THOSE WHO HARM J&K PEACE PROCESS’

- letters@hindustant­imes.com

SRINAGAR : With the abrogation of article 370, Jammu and Kashmir is treading on the path of peace and developmen­t and anyone who tries to create hurdles in the way will be dealt with sternly, BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav said here on Sunday.

SRINAGAR :With the abrogation of article 370, Jammu and Kashmir is treading on the path of peace and developmen­t and anyone who tries to create hurdles in the way will be dealt with sternly, BJP national general secretary Ram Madhav said here on Sunday.

“Till now everything used to be done for a few families or a few leaders in Kashmir, but now whatever is happening, is happening for lakhs of families of this state... for the common Kashmiri,” Madhav said.

“There will now be only two paths for J&K-- peace and developmen­t and whosoever comes in between will be dealt with sternly. There are many jails in India for those,” he added.

The BJP leader was addressing a convention of the party’s youth wing at Tagore Hall here which was the first political event in Kashmir after the abrogation of article 370 and bifurcatio­n of the state into two Union territorie­s. Asking politician­s not to treat the people of Jammu and Kashmir as fodder for their politics, Madhav who visited the valley for the first time since the abrogation of article 370 said if 200-300 people are to be kept inside jails to achieve the path to peace and developmen­t, “then we will keep them”.

“You can do your politics without disturbing the peace. Some leaders are sending messages while sitting inside jails that people will take to gun and sacrifice themselves. I want to tell those leaders to come forward and sacrifice themselves,” he said.

“Politician­s were making common people a fodder for their politics and the public was being used. But, we will not allow such politics. We want politics of developmen­t and corruption­s will be eradicated from here,” he added. He said Pakistan PM Imran Khan did not know how to handle his country but often talked of Kashmir now and then.

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