Congressional leader Kapil Sibal responded to Union Interior Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday for saying that Congress and the People’s Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration wanted to bring Jammu and Kashmir back to the age of terror and agitation. He also criticized Shah for using the term “Gupkar Gang”.
“Amit Shah alleges: Congress wants to bring J&K back to the age of terror and turmoil, when speaking to other parties in the upcoming District Development Council elections,” Sibal said in a tweet. “Amitji was BJP-PDP [Bharatiya Janata Party-Peoples Democratic Party] Alliance to bring back the terror in J&K? What gang did you belong to then?
Amit Shah alleges:
Congress wants to bring “J&K back to the age of terror and confusion” when it speaks to other parties in the upcoming District Development Council elections.
Amitji was the BJP -PDP alliance to “bring terror back in J&K …”?
What gang did you belong to then?
– Kapil Sibal (@KapilSibal) November 18, 2020
Congressional leader Saifuddin Soz also criticized Shah for the comments, saying the interior minister has shown India and its democracy in little light by describing the alliance of major political parties as a “gang,” reported PTI. .
In a statement, Soz said that the ruling government in the Center has already caused damage to the governing system by imagining that the Bharatiya Janata Party is the only safeguard for India’s democratic system.
“However, the reality is quite the opposite of this!” he said. “The fact is that the current governance in the Center has brought a bad name to India and its democracy and now it is a great shock to the whole system that the Kashmir union is mainstream. [People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration] it is seen as a threat to the democratic system of India. “
“If the Union Interior Minister is not prepared to deal with a democratic structure in Kashmir, would he then wait for [the] emergence of a configuration contrary to the current democratic mix, ”asked Soz. He added that the relationship between Jammu and Kashmir and the Center has already suffered setbacks and the damage appeared “irreparable.”
Regarding Shah’s comments, Congress leader P Chidambaram also said in an interview: “The Interior Minister is shirking his responsibilities and making misleading comments.”
Secretary General of Congress Randeep Singh SurjewalaMeanwhile, he lashed out at Shah for his comments against the match. Singh said in a statement that “spreading lies and creating new illusions” had become the path of the government led by Narendra Modi. He also accused Shah of making misleading statements about Jammu and Kashmir, while setting aside responsibility for national security.
Former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti and Omar Abdullah, whose parties are part of the alliance, also criticized Shah for his comments on Tuesday. “We are not a ‘gang’ Amit Shahji, we are a legitimate political alliance that we have fought and continue to fight in the elections, much to his disappointment,” Abdullah said.
Shah had launched a tirade Tuesday against the People’s Alliance Declaration for Gupkar, calling it an “ungodly global gathbandhan.” He claimed that the “Gupkar Gang” wanted “foreign forces to intervene in Jammu and Kashmir” and that the people of India “would not tolerate them”.
The Union Minister of the Interior also criticized Congress in his tweets. In an apparent reference to an alleged comment made by Farooq Abdullah about “China’s support” for reinstating Article 370 and the Mufti’s comments on the national flag, Shah asked Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi to clarify. your position. “Do Sonia Ji and Rahul Ji support such movements of the Gupkar gang?” tweeted.
The People’s Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration, or Gupkar Alliance, is a six-party alliance, which was formed in October with the agenda of reinstating Article 370 of the Constitution, now repealed, which granted special status to the former state of Jammu and Cashmere.
Under the Gupkar Declaration, regional parties and Congress had resolved to protect the special constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir and to fight any move to dilute it.
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