Amit Shah accused Jawaharlal Nehru, the nation’s first prime minister, of making mistakes regarding Kashmir the day before, responding to this Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said the Home Minister had a “habit of rewriting history.”
“Pandit Nehru gave his life for India, he was in jail for years. Amit Shah is unaware of history. I cannot expect him to know history, he has the habit of rewriting it,” Rahul Gandhi told reporters outside parliament today.
“It is just a way of distracting people from real issues,” added Mr Gandhi, who is the great-grandson of Nehru.
Jawaharlal Nehru was accused by Amit Shah of making “two major blunders” when he announced a ceasefire in the war with Pakistan and brought the Kashmir issue before the United Nations, just hours after the Supreme Court upheld the Center’s decision to remove Article 370 and end special status of Jammu and Kashmir four years ago.
As per Mr Shah, “If there was no untimely ceasefire (during the war with Pakistan), there wouldn’t have been a PoK (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir). Our country was winning, had he (Nehru) waited for two days, entire Kashmir would have been ours.”
He further added, “People say if not for Nehru, there would have been no Kashmir. People who know history, I want to ask them, Hyderabad faced a bigger problem, did Nehru go there? Did Nehru go to Lakshadweep, Junagarh or Jodhpur? He only used to go to Kashmir and even there he left the job unfinished.”
Mr. Shah, who was the one to announce in 2019 the revocation of Article 370 and the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir, claimed that the court’s decision validated the government’s position.
According to the minister, the government’s efforts to integrate Jammu and Kashmir have improved people’s quality of life.
“There are other states with more Muslim population than Kashmir. Then why only J&K was suffering from terrorism? It was because Article 370 led to separatism.” He said that Article 370 had “led to separatism” in Jammu and Kashmir.
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