New Delhi: Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday alleged that the Congress’ Bharat Jodo Yatra only betrays their discomfiture with normalcy having returned to Jammu and Kashmir because the party and its allies have developed a “vested interest” in the continuation of terrorism and unrest to ensure they continue to thrive by getting elected, generation after generation.
He said “the common man walking on the streets of Srinagar wants to be a part of the India journey led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and after having come out of a nightmare of three decades, he is not ready to be thrown back into the same mayhem of violence and destruction.”
Singh, the Minister of State for Personnel, said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his colleagues should read the history and take a cue from the Ekta Yatra taken out by the BJP in early 1992 which culminated in hoisting of the tricolor at Lal Chowk in Srinagar.
“The intent of that Yatra was to send out a message across the country and also internationally that nationalist forces in India would never allow J&K to be separated from India in spite of the divisive politics of the Congress coupled with machinations of Pakistan,” he said.
“The BJP Yatra at that time was vehemently opposed by the ruling Congress and its allies who were the vote bank beneficiaries of keeping the integration of J&K with India under question mark,” the minister said.
“The credit goes to PM Narendra Modi for having abrogated Article 370 and adopting a decisive approach of zero tolerance against terrorism, as a result of which today there is complete mainstreaming of J&K,” said Singh, who is the Lok Sabha member from Jammu and Kashmir’s Udhampur constituency.
“At a time like this, Congress’ so-called Bharat Jodo Yatra only betrays their discomfiture with normalcy having returned to J&K because the Congress and its allies have developed a vested interest in the continuation of terrorism and unrest so that the voting percentage is low and they continue to thrive by getting elected, generation after generation, to sustain their dynasty rule,” he said.
Singh alleged that in the garb of Bharat Jodo Yatra, the Congress is actually trying to create an element of division or “Bharat Todo” in J&K for its vested political interest.
The Congress and its allies, during their rule, “tactically supported terrorism, separatism, nepotism and corruption” while economic development came to a standstill in Jammu and Kashmir, the minister claimed and credited PM Modi for “having brought J&K back on the track”.
“The stakes are too high and therefore, ill-conceived or mischievous misadventures of Rahul Gandhi and his colleagues can no longer be afforded,” he said.
Singh said time will vindicate that the Congress’ Bharat Jodo Yatra will meet its waterloo in J&K and end up in “Congress Todo” by further disintegrating and finishing off the last remnants of this “outlived dynastic vestige”.
