RIJIJU ATTACKS NEHRU ON HIS BIRTH ANNIV, CONG HITS BACK

NEW DELHI: Union law minister Kiren Rijiju on Monday mounted a fresh attack on former prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on the Kashmir issue, claiming that the country’s first PM had moved the United Nations under the wrong Article after Pakistan’s invasion, thereby making the neighbouring country a party to the dispute, instead of an aggressor.

In a series of tweets, Rijiju also said Nehru let the “myth” of a Un-mandated plebiscite perpetuate and created the “divisive” Article 370 of the Constitution.

“Nehru rejected Maharaja Hari Singh’s plea to accede to India not just once but thrice,” he tweeted.

In response, Congress communications chief, Jairam Ramesh, called him “the latest entrant to the club of Distorians...”. Speaking at the Nehru Memorial Lecture, party chief Mallikarjun Kharge hit out at the BJP saying they were trying to “break the nation, while we are unifying it”.