Updated: November 17, 2020 5:11:39 pm
Major parties, including the National Conference, the PDP, the Peoples’ Conference and the CPM, formed the Gupkar alliance last month.
Making an exception to Amit Shah calling the alliance of the main political parties in Jammu and Kashmir as the Gupkar Gang, the former chief ministers of the former state, Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah, responded to the Union Interior Minister, saying that the BJP can unite so many alliances “In its hunger for power” but “we are undermining the national interest.”
In a series of tweets, Shah said Congress and the Gupkar Gang want to bring J&K into the age of terror and confusion. “They want to take away the rights of Dalits, women and tribal people that we have secured by removing Article 370. That is why they are being rejected by people everywhere,” he tweeted.
Congress and the Gupkar Gang want to bring J&K back to the age of terror and confusion. 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.
– Amit Shah (@AmitShah) November 17, 2020
In response to this, 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. “
Mufti also said that Shah’s intent is simply to project the Gupkar alliance as “anti-national” after the BJP ‘tukde tukde gang’ narrative. “Old habits die hard. The previous BJP narrative was that the tukde tukde gang threatened India’s sovereignty and now they are using the euphemism ‘Gupkar Gang’ to project us as anti-national,” said the PDP leader.
Old habits die hard. The previous BJP narrative was that the tukde tukde gang threatened the sovereignty of India and now they are using the euphemism of ‘Gupkar Gang’ to project us as anti-national. Irony died a million deaths from his own BJP violating the constitution every day https://t.co/LoODFZuPmd
– Mehbooba Mufti (@MehboobaMufti) November 17, 2020
Calling it an outdated and predictable tactic, Mufti further said that the BJP projects itself as “saviors” and political opponents as “imaginary internal enemies.” “He loves jihad, tukde tukde and now the Gupkar Gang dominates the political discourse instead of rising unemployment and inflation,” he added.
Apart from the Mufti, the leader of the National Conference, Omar Abdullah, also attacked the BJP saying that only in J&K can leaders be arrested and called anti-nationals for participating in elections that support the democratic process.
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“We are not a ‘gang’ Amit Shah ji, we are a legitimate political alliance who have fought and continue to fight against the elections, much to their disappointment,” Abdullah said in a tweet.
Only at J&K can leaders be arrested and called anti-national for participating in elections and supporting the democratic process. The truth is that all those who oppose the ideology of the BJP are labeled “corrupt and anti-national”.
– Omar Abdullah (@OmarAbdullah) November 17, 2020
“The truth is that all those who oppose the ideology of the BJP are labeled as corrupt and anti-national,” he added.
Mufti’s rebuttal came after the Home Secretary claimed that J&K has been and will always remain an integral part of India and dubbed an alliance of Union Territory political parties the “Gupkar Gang.”
Shah also took aim at Congressional leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, saying that they do support the People’s Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), a conglomerate of regional and national political parties in Jammu and Kashmir formed to demand the restoration of Article 370. , removed last year. .
The Congress party had formally joined the Gupkar Alliance on November 13 ahead of the eight-phase District Development Council (DDC) that will take place between November 28 and December 19.
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