Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah declared during an electoral campaign in Howrah, West Bengal, that Pakistan can not stop the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government from getting back Jammu and Kashmir occupied by them.
“Isn’t Pak-occupied Kashmir ours? Mani Shankar Aiyar and Farooq Abdullah used to scare us by saying that Pakistan has an atom bomb so we should not speak about Pak-occupied Kashmir. Rahul baba, Mamata didi, no matter how scared you are, Pak-occupied Kashmir is ours and we will take it back,” Shah said on Wednesday.
Contrasting the difference between the Indian side of Kashmir and the Pakistan-occupied Jammu Kashmir, Shah said, “Earlier people used to stage protests in our part of Kashmir. Now under PM Modi’s influence, there are no hartals observed in the Indian part of Kashmir, but in Pak-occupied Kashmir. Earlier slogans demanding independence were shouted here. Now they are shouted in Pak-occupied Kashmir. Earlier stones were pelted here, now they are pelted there.”
Home Minister further said, “Two crore tourists came to Kashmir and created a new record and Pak-occupied Kashmir created a record in rate of selling wheat to the people.”
Shah continued, “Mamata didi, Congress, the syndicate used to ask us not to remove Article 370. When I asked them in Parliament they said that rivers of blood will flow. This is PM Modi’s government. After five years, let alone rivers of blood no one even dared to light a fire.”
“Prime Minister Narendra Modi abrogated Article 370 and integrated Kashmir into the rest of India,” he added.
In Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), there were four days of violent protests and a shutter-down strike. These events ended after Islamabad announced that PKR 23 billion would be granted immediately to meet requests for equitable energy pricing and wheat flour subsidies.
