SHAHJANANPUR, July 25:
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. (UNI)
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