Amit Shah calls the Gupkar alliance “unholy”; J&K Leaders, Congress Strikes Back | India News

NEW DELHI: The Union Minister of the Interior Amit shah hit the newly formed Gupkar Alliance, a coalition of J&K political parties, calling it an “impious gathbandhan” against the national interest.
In a series of tweets, Shah accused political parties of seeking the intervention of foreign forces in J&K and disrespecting the Indian tricolor. Shah claimed that Congress and the Gupkar gang want to take Jammu and Kashmir back to the age of terror and confusion.

In August this year, on the first anniversary of the repeal of Article 370, the main regional political parties of Jammu and Kashmir came together to “safeguard and restore a special status along with Article 35A of the former state of Jammu and Kashmir.”
Shah also targeted the Congress party, seeking a response from Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul gandhi to explain if they supported them.

However, Congress spokesman Randeep Surjewala later clarified that he was not part of the seven-member grouping. The party statement read: “Spreading lies, fraud and the creation of new illusions have become the way of the Modi government.”

Attacking the Modi government, the congressional leader further stated: “It is a shame that Interior Minister Amit Shah is neglecting responsibility for national security and is making false, misleading and malicious statements about Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.” .
While stating that Congress favors democratic elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the statement confirmed that the INC is participating in the District Development Council elections.
On Twitter, the President of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Mehbooba Mufti, and the Vice President of the National Conference (NC), Omar Abdullah, responded to Shah in his tweet, describing the Gupkar alliance as “Gupkar Gang.”
In his rebuttal, Mufti said: “Fighting the elections in an alliance is also anti-national now. BJP can sew so many alliances in its hunger for power, but somehow we are undermining the national interest by raising a united front. ”

“He loves jihad, tukde tukde and now the Gupkar Gang dominates the political discourse instead of rising unemployment and inflation,” he added.
The leader of the National Conference, Omar Abdullah, also criticized the BJP saying that only at J&K can leaders be detained and called anti-national for participating in elections that support the democratic process.

“We are not a ‘gang’ Amit Shah ji, we are a legitimate political alliance that we have fought and continue to fight against the elections, much to their disappointment,” Abdullah said, referring to his tweet.
The exchange of tweets comes ahead of the first J&K polls for the District Development Council on Nov. 26.