Cong attacks BJP on UN report HUMAN RIGHTS
Says allowing report on Kashmir was failure of govt’s foreign policy ◗ UN report alleged massive violations of human rights in Kashmir. New Delhi rejected the report calling it “fallacious and motivated”
New Delhi, June 23: The Congress on Saturday hit out at the government over the UN report on alleged human rights violation in Kashmir, saying how did it allow the world body to come out with such a report.
Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera, during a briefing here, accused the government of “criminal failure” on the foreign policy front.
“We are very agitated, concerned and worried, ( that) how did the UN report on human rights see the light of the day. The prime minister keeps going to address the diaspora across the world. He talks big, comes back and this is what we get,’ Mr Khera said. The UN, earlier this month, had released the first- ever report on alleged human rights violation in Kashmir and PoK and demanded an international probe into it, evoking a sharp reaction from India which had termed document as “fallacious and motivated”.
New Delhi had also lodged a strong protest with the United Nations, saying the government is “deeply concerned that individual prejudices are being allowed to undermine the credibility of a UN institution.”
The Congress had supported the government's stand in dismissing the UN report on human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir, terming it a “prejudiced attempt” by vested interests to hurt India's sovereignty and national interests. Mr Khera, in his remarks on Saturday, said the “biggest question mark on our foreign policy has been this, how was UN allowed in the first place to come up with the damning report, a shameless report, a report which the Congress rejected right at the word go.
“Congress criticised the report in far more sharper and stronger words than the government. How was that report allowed,” he added.