Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 8: Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee has said that blaming previous Congress Governments especially the first Prime Minister Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru has become the habit of BJP and some its leaders, trying to be in limelight always and to divert the attention of the nation from their failures on various fronts and the growing concerns in the country.
Lashing out at the BJP for introducing the culture of blaming the previous Governments, especially Pt Nehru for all the ills being faced by the country on various fronts today and presenting the distorted versions of the history to paint one of the tallest leader of his times, in a poor light, PCC said that some leaders believe that by doing so, they can hide their failures on multiple fronts.
PCC chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma said that the history is witness to the great role of Pt Nehru who succeeded in a befitting response to Jinnah, the creator of Pakistan on the basis of two nation theory, when the Muslims majority state bordering Pakistan, out rightly rejected the same and choose a secular India of the dreams of Mahatma Gandhi and Pt Nehru.
The then Muslim leadership of the Dogra state has been on record having said that it was a great victory of our leadership of the times to ensure the defeat and rejection of two nations theory of Jinnah, as a result J&K finally acceeded to India.
But BJP leaders must be aware that before J&K, became an inseparable part of India, legally and constitutionally, the raiders, sponsored and aided by Pakistan Army had captured a large portion of it. The Indian forces landed in Srinagar on Oct 27,1947 and fought bravely to drive away the Pakistani raiders.
He said falsely blaming the then visionary leadership of Nehru, who played a very vital role and who was instrumental in the spade work and creation of such an atmosphere of harmony and trust with the leadership of majority community in the state that proved to be crucial for the final accession of J&K with India, amounts to misreading the history and its distortion for political motives.
Instead of giving the due credit for the vital role of Nehru in the accession of J&K with India, the BJP leaders are trying to prove him wrong and failure on all fronts for vested political interests, as they failed to digest his popularity even after over five and half decades after his death, Sharma added.
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