NEW DELHI, Feb 21: Condemning the attacks on Kashmiri people across the country, senior Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad today said people of Kashmir love the nation and had played a significant role in driving out Pakistanis from India immediately after independence.
Speaking at a function at the AICC headquarters to announce the joining of Haryana JD-U leader Kamalveer Singh in Congress, Azad said that in October 1947 when Pakistan had captured almost the half of Kashmir, including the Srinagar airport and Baramulla, it was Kashmiri people who had played a crucial role in forcing the Pakistanis to flee. Even after independence, the Kashmiris have worked shoulder to shoulder with Army and the police against terrorists.
Expressing concern over a hotel in Agra having put a notice that ‘Kashmiris not allowed’, the senior Congress leader said it is for the first time in 70 years that such incident has happened.
He said such type of things happened only in the pre independence era when it was British rule in the country.
”The entire country should condemn denial of Kashmiris in hotel in Agra,” Azad said.
He said any Kashmiri student who come to study in any part of India means that they condemn terrorists and want to be in mainstream.
Azad said that he appeals to educational institutions in different States to allow Kashmiri students to be part of the mainstream. (UNI)
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