Congressional leader Kapil Sibal lashed out Wednesday at Union Interior Minister Amit Shah for his comment on the “Gupkar gang” and asked him if the alliance between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Democratic Alliance Popular (PDP) was going to “bring back terror” in Jammu and Kashmir.
“Amit Shah Alleges: Congress wants to bring ” J&K back to the age of terror and confusion ” when speaking to other parties in the upcoming District Development Council elections. Amitji was the BJP -PDP alliance for” bring back the terror in J&K. . “What gang were you part of then?” Mr. Sibal tweeted.
On Tuesday, Amit Shah had said that the People’s Alliance Declaration for Gupkar wants foreign forces to intervene in Jammu and Kashmir, adding that people in India will no longer tolerate a “global unholy Gathbandhan“against the national interest.
Amit Shah alleges:
Congress wants to bring “J&K into the age of terror and turmoil” when it speaks to other parties in the upcoming District Development Council elections.
Was Amitji the BJP -PDP alliance to “bring back the terror in J&K …”?
What gang did you belong to then?
– Kapil Sibal (@KapilSibal) November 18, 2020
On Twitter, Shah had asked the head of Congress, Sonia Gandhi, and the party leader, Rahul Gandhi, if they supported the People’s Alliance Declaration for Gupkar, which he said insulted the Indian tricolor.
The interior minister said that “Congress and Gupkar’s gang want to bring Jammu and Kashmir into the age of terror and turmoil.”
Jammu and Kashmir has been, is and will always be an integral part of India. The Indians will no longer tolerate a profane ‘global gathbandhan’ against our national interest. Either the Gupkar Gang swims along with the national mood or the people will sink it.
– Amit Shah (@AmitShah) November 17, 2020
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 tribal people that we have secured by removing Article 370. That is why people everywhere reject them.
– Amit Shah (@AmitShah) November 17, 2020
However, the general secretary of Congress, Randeep Singh Surjewala Surjewala, clarified that “the Congress party is not part of the Gupkar alliance or the People’s Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration.”
In 2015, the BJP entered into an alliance with the PDP after no party could obtain a majority in the 2014 Assembly elections. However, in 2018, the BJP withdrew from its coalition government with the PDP.
The parties, including the National Conference, the PDP, the Peoples’ Conference and the CPI (M), formed the People’s Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration and are fighting together in the inaugural District Development Council (DDC) elections.
While Farooq Abdullah was elected chairman of the People’s Alliance for the Gupkar Declaration, Mehbooba Mufti was elected to play a vice-chair role.
On October 24, the leader of the National Conference, Omar Abdullah, had said that the PAGD had been formed to ensure that the rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are restored. “All united to restore the position prior to August 5, 2019,” he added.
The DDC polls will be conducted in Jammu and Kashmir in eight phases between November 28 and December 19, with the vote counting taking place on December 22.
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