Gupkar Alliance selling false dreams: Anurag Thakur

Union MoS, Anurag Thakur with BJP activists at Jammu on Friday.
Union MoS, Anurag Thakur with BJP activists at Jammu on Friday.

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 27: Union Minister of State for Finance and Corporate Affairs, in-charge of Jammu and Kashmir DDC elections, Anurag Thakur today said that the removal of irrelevant Articles 370 and 35A from Jammu and Kashmir is in the interest of the people of the UT and Gupkar Alliance is trying to cheat people by selling false dreams to restore these Articles.
Anurag Thakur while addressing series of meetings of party activists here, today said, “Jammu Kashmir is the crown of India and the Modi Government at the Center is committed to enhance the beauty, dignity and elegance of this crown and to maintain an atmosphere of peace here’’. The Modi Government has removed the curse of Jammu and Kashmir by removing Articles 370 and 35A, which have been a hindrance in development, the pace of development of the erstwhile State and its citizens has been provided with a shield to live peacefully. Due to 370 and 35A, for years Jammu and Kashmir and its citizens were deprived of the facilities they were entitled to. Under this irrelevant Article, some families have worked only to make their political fortunes and live luxuriously, he added.
He said Modi has given J&K its right and identity. “There is a panic among these families and they are speaking anti-national language to compromise the interests and are going with the enemies of the country. It is the collective responsibility of all of us that in these DDC elections, for the prosperity, progress and peace of the UT we have to make the BJP victorious with an overwhelming majority and reject these families by thwarting their nefarious plans, ” he added.
Speaking further, Thakur said, “Articles 370 and 35A have gone from the J&K for ever and it is not possible to restore them under any circumstances. Gupkar alliance is trying to cheat Jammu & Kashmir by selling false dreams to restore 370. The UT has benefited from the removal of 370 and 35A. Why have the governments so far upheld Article 370 and misled the people of the country? Why did the people of the country continue to be robbed of hard-earned money and sweat for the safety of a handful of people and special status? Why the security forces were left to die with tied hands for the safety of these Kashmiri separatists,? With its removal, the problem of dual citizenship of the local people in Jammu and Kashmir has ended and the tribal and Balmiki society has got citizenship, he added.