Union Interior Minister Amit Shah attacked the Jammu and Kashmir parties and Congress.
New Delhi:
The Union Minister of the Interior, Amit Shah, attacked the political leaders of Jammu and Kashmir today with a series of accusations that included getting “foreign forces to intervene” in the question of the elimination of Article 370, taking away the rights of women. women and Dalits and bring back “terror and confusion” on the territory of the Union. In a series of tweets, he also targeted Congress, a signatory to the Gupkar Declaration, asking the party to clarify its position on the issue. The former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti, immediately responded with an equal number of tweets, accusing the BJP of using “euphemism” and “outdated tactic”.
“Congress and the Gupkar Gang want to bring J&K back into the age of terror and unrest. They want to take away the rights of Dalits, women and tribes that we have secured by removing Article 370. That is why they are being rejected by people everywhere, “his tweet read.
“Gupkar gang” is the right-wing insult of the “People’s Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration”, a group of key political leaders from Jammu and Kashmir, including Farooq Abdullah, his archrival Mehbooba Mufti and Sajjad Lone, who joined together to fight for the restoration of article 370 and a resolution to Kashmir.
Right-wing leaders have accused them of being anti-national, especially after Abdullah’s speech in parliament in September, in which they advocated talks with Pakistan. The 83-year-old had argued that if India can talk to China to deactivate its border row, it can also talk to its other neighbor to deal with the situation at the Jammu and Kashmir borders.
The Gupkar gang is going global! They want foreign forces to intervene in Jammu and Kashmir. The Gupkar gang also insults the tricolor of India. Do Sonia Ji and Rahul Ji support such movements of the Gupkar gang? They must make their position very clear to the people of India.
– Amit Shah (@AmitShah) November 17, 2020
The BJP had demanded that Mehbooba Mufti be charged with sedition after the vice president of the People’s Alliance said that she will not raise the national flag until the Jammu and Kashmir flag itself returns. Jammu and Kashmir had lost its flag, part of its special status under Article 370 of the Constitution, after it was scrapped in August last year and the state forked into two Union Territories.
“Jammu and Kashmir has been, is, and always will be an integral part of India. The Indian people will no longer tolerate an ungodly ‘global gathbandhan’ against our national interest. Either the Gupkar Gang swims with the national mood or the people will bring him down, “Amit Shah tweeted.
His tweets found the support of his cabinet colleague, Finance Minister NIrmala Sitharaman. “Well said, @AmitShah ji. @INCIndia has increasingly found solace in the naxal groups of ‘India breakup’ (‘tukde-tukde’). They have exposed their continued tendency to partner with forces seeking outside help to upset India. People in India are looking for an answer from @INCIndia, “his reply read.
In his tweets, Mehbooba Mufti accused the BJP of having double standards when it comes to elections. “Fighting the elections in an alliance is also anti-national now. The BJP can unite so many alliances in its hunger for power, but somehow we are undermining the national interest by raising a united front,” his tweet read.
“Love jihad, tukde tukde and now Gupkar Gang dominates the political discourse rather than as unemployment and inflation rise,” he said in another tweet.
The Gupkar Declaration was signed on August 4, 2019, after an all-party meeting at the Gupkar Road residence, the Patriarch of the National Conference, Farooq Abdullah. It marked a resolution to assist regional parties and Congress to protect Jammu and Kashmir’s special constitutional status and fight any move to dilute it.
Two days later, the Center ended the special status of the state granted by the Constitution and bifurcated it into two Union territories.
This August, the political parties had met again and vowed to fight for the restoration of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status.
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