Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 23: Asking National Conference to revisit history, BJP State spokesperson Prof Virender Gupta has rebutted the statement of NC leader, Nasir Aslam Wani that BJP national president, Amit Shah needs lessons in history.
Prof Virender said that Amit Shah was absolutely correct in his statement that present unrest and turmoil in the Valley is confined to three and half districts only and added that the districts affected by terrorist activities are Pulwama, Kulgam, Shopian in South Kashmir and half of Budgam district in Centre Kashmir. He also added that Shia, Gujjar and Bakarwal communities that constitute about 40 percent population of the Valley is indifferent to the present movement launched by separatists at the behest of Pakistan while only a section of Sunni population of the Valley is involved in creating disturbances.
The spokesperson blamed National Conference for triggering the present unrest after losing their foot hold in the last Assembly elections when their performance was lowest of all the previous elections. He said that peace had prevailed in Jammu and Kashmir when Bakshi Gulam Mohmmad, Gulam Mohmmad Sadiq and Mir Quasim were heading the State Government. “It was mis-adventure of Congress party under the leadership of Indra Gandhi when it installed Sheikh Abdullah as Chief Minister of the State in 1976 and thereafter separatist movement in the Valley started getting strengthened from that date,” he added .
Prof Virender further said that Farooq Abdullah when in power tried to communalise the Jammu and Kashmir society and allowed the fundamental forces to grow, as a result the forces who are creating a war like situation and working for complete Islamization of the Valley and Jammu and Kashmir as whole, have established strong foot hold in the Valley and are challenging the integrity, peace and secular ethos of the country.
The BJP spokesperson said that present turmoil in the Valley is against the sovereignty and integrity of Indian Nation and the political parties like National Conference are fueling the fire for their own political interests. He rebuked the statement of Farooq Abdullah that Centre is playing vote bank politics by pursuing a hardened policy on Kashmir and asked him to look back on his anti-national provocative statements before and during the Srinagar Parliamentary bi-elections before blaming the Centre.
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