SRINAGAR : Prime Minister Narendra Modi today assured the people of Kashmir that he would bring back the valley’s lost glory that once beckoned, people from all the corners of the world with its saffron and Dal Lake. “I have come here to end your sufferings…I will bring back Kashmir’s lost glory,” the Prime Minister said in an address at an election rally amid a tight security blanket and in the backdrop of terrorist attacks.
“Pahad ka paani aur pahad ki jawani pahad kay kaam aani chahiye (Water and the youth of the mountains should serve the mountains,” he said to the crowd, while promising to bring back development to the state. He said the people of Kashmir had tried many ways but nothing had worked and now only one way was left and that was the way of of ‘vikas’ (development). “I have come here with a mantra of development and my mantra is ‘sabka Saath, sabka vikas,” he added. (AGENCIES)