SHAHJANANPUR : Leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad today asked Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to protect Pakistan rather than eye Kashmir.
“Due to Kashmir, Pakistan lost its eastern parts (now Bangladesh) in 1971 but could not take an inch of India’s land,” he said.
Mr Azad, AICC general secretary and in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, warned that Pakistan could not take an inch of Kashmir at any cost.. The Congress leader, who was talking to reporters here at the Prasada Bhawan the residence of former Union Minister Jitin Prasada here, hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party for dividing the society in Uttar Pradesh on the name of community and caste.
“We have started a new era to build a fresh confidence among the society shedding the evil of caste and community,” he said. Mr Azad was here in connection with the ongoing roadshow with a slogan of ‘ 27 saal, UP behaal” which was flagged off from New Delhi by Congress president Sonia Gandhi and vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday.
On the third day of the roadshow, the bus of the Congress leaders would cross Hardoi, Kannauj and Kanpur Dehat to end at Kanpur this evening.The road show had covered Ghaziabad, Hapur, Amroha, Moradabad, Rampur and Bareilly during the past two days.
” Due to caste and communal politics, UP did not achieve its desired development. But now Congress has come to remove these elements and give a real focus on the state’s development,” Mr Azad affirmed. Hitting out at the BJP government at the Centre, he said that two years have passed but the promise to bring back black money by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was yet to materialise.
” The SP government, which promised to provide job to the youths, instead gave laptops to them. Our main agenda will be to improve the law and order situation which has deteriorated in this regime and justice is only given to gangsters and big people,” he said.
UP Congress president Raj Babbar said it was only Congress which can unite the entire country with its secular credentials.” The situation in UP during the past 27 years has deteriorated after the Congress lost power in the state and now people have to think who can lead them to betterment,” he said while adding that Congress has never compromised with communal forces nor had done caste based politics.
Commenting on the possible tie-up in UP for next year’s Assembly polls, Mr Babbar said Congress will have alliance with the common masses and with no other political parties.
” People of UP have supported BSP on caste factor in 2007 and again in 2012 it supported SP on the name of employment while in 2014 the people supported BJP in the Lok Sabha polls. But all the three have ditched the people and did nothing,” he stated.
Other senior party leaders, including Sanjay Singh, Pramod Tiwari, Rita Bahuguna Joshi and Jitin Prasada, were present in the press meet. (AGENCIES)
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