Launching a scathing attack on the constituents of the INDI Alliance in Jammu and Kashmir, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday appealed to the people in Kashmir not to vote for the Congress, National Conference and PDP, saying they have been exploited.
Alleging that these three parties did not allow democracy to grow in Jammu and Kashmir... on the pretext of security, Shah said they only exploited our Kashmiri youth and handed over guns to them.
Addressing a Jan Ashirwad Maha Rally in Jammu in support of sitting MP Jugal Kishore Sharma Amit Shah said, "I want to ask (National Conference president) Farooq Abdullah and the PDP as to under whose rule most of the fake encounters took place? And who fired on the children of Kashmir, and handed over guns to them? "These are the three parties responsible for all this. Prime Minister Narendra Modi restored peace in Jammu and Kashmir and paved the way for the region's development. J and K slipped into backwardness due to terrorism and agitations for the past 70 years. Modi facilitated the end of terrorism, stone-pelting, and separatism and paved the way for development in J&K," he said.
Reaching out to the Kashmir-based common voter Union Home Minister said the BJP believes in winning the hearts of people which will ultimately lead to the 'lotus', his party's poll symbol, blooming across the Valley.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the BJP's rival parties have asked people not to vote for the BJP and its "proxies", claiming the ruling party was more interested in the land of Kashmir than the welfare of its people.
"I want to clear the misgivings being created among Kashmiri youths that the BJP wants to take the land of Kashmir by force. The BJP is not among those who occupy land by force but believes in winning the hearts of people".
Shah said the BJP is in no haste as it knows that the party’s symbol 'lotus' will bloom on its own in the Valley with the love of people.
Meanwhile, Congress leader Sachin Pilot also addressed an election rally in Kathua in favor of Choudhary Lal Singh of the Congress party.
Pilot accused the BJP government of playing “religious politics to divert attention from its failures” on the development front.“The Election Commission is watching as a mute spectator. In connection with the Chandigarh mayoral elections, we had to move to the Supreme Court for justice, and we got it. They sealed the accounts of the Congress, put elected chief ministers in jail, and tried to muzzle the opposition,” Pilot said while addressing a rally.
