Jammu Tawi, December 23
‘To end the discrimination feeling from the minds of the people of Jammu and Ladakh, the only solution is to fully integrate the state with the Union of India and then go for decentralization of power and equitable distribution of resources between the three regions,” said senior Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) leader, Arun Jaitley, here, today.Jaitley along with other BJP central leadership is in Jammu for holding the party’s office bearers meet and to address a public gathering in order to express their resentment against statement of Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah’s statement on the accession of J&K with India on Friday. BJP president Natin Gadkhari, leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, national spokesman Ravi Shanker Prashad, senior leaders Murli Manohar Joshi, Rajnath Singh, Anant Kumar, Venkaiah Naidu, Vasundhara Raje, Hema Malini, Navjot Singh Sidhu and Smriti Irani and some Chief Ministers of the BJP-ruled states are also in the city of temples for a two-day visit. Stating that violence was the key strategy of separatists, Arun Jailtley castigated UPA and state government for giving credence and legitimacy to the separatists by conceding to their demands. “…organizing mass protests and instigating youths to pelt stone on security forces is the new strategy of the separatists, to create violence out of it.” He said that common masses in Kashmir are fed up with separatist’s agenda of violence and continued hartals and protest calls.
Terming National Conference led coalition government responsible for the current situation of Jammu and Kashmir State, BJP leader, Arun Jaitley said that due to poor and unplanned policies of government, people of J&K state are suffering.
BJP leader and leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley also said that the current situation of the state needs to be dispassionately analyzed. “Government of India should distinguish between the demands of common people of Kashmir, who want peace,” he said, adding that the Kashmir issue is nothing but a part of unfinished agenda of Pakistan emanating from partition and a result of erroneous blunders of the Nehruvian vision on
Jammu and Kashmir. Talking about special status of Jammu and Kashmir with the provision of Article 370, Jaitley said that Article 370 has worked against the interest of the people of the state and has prevented investment in the state. It has prevented job creation in the state.
Resenting over the statement of chief minister, Omar Abdullah on the accession of J&K with India, Arun Jaitely said that the merger of J&K with India is complete and irrevocable. “Accession of Kashmir, not merger with India” reflects “complete misconception and self deception” on part of the CM, said Jaitley.
Taking dig at ruling government, the senior BJP leader said the present UPA government has run completely out of ideas on Kashmir situation.
“That is why; on each visit to valley Prime Minister announces some adhoc initiatives. Earlier five working groups were constituted, which never met, but still one group supported demand of autonomy. Then the home minister announced quiet dialogue, which never took place. Now, they have sent three interlocutors who started the dialogue through the media,” he said, adding Kashmir was standing at historic cross-roads. “Most people of Kashmir want peace and progress. This can only be achieved by BJP’s approach of full constitutional integration of the state with union of India,” he said.
