Kashmir issue ‘myth’ created by Congress, NC: Jitendra Singh
The so-called Kashmir issue is a political “myth” created by the Congress, the National Conference and other such political groups which have a vested interest in the region’s electoral vote bank, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said Saturday.
He said Jammu and Kashmir is very much like any other state of the Indian union.
There is no such issue as “Kashmir issue” and the political leaders who try to rake it up have a deep rooted selfish interest in creating an issue out of non-issue, in order to hoodwink the innocent masses of Kashmir, he said.
“The so-called Kashmir issue is a political myth created by the Congress, the National Conference and other such political groups for their vested interest,” the minister told PTI.
“The biggest evidence of hypocrisy on the part of the Kashmir-centric leaders is that they underplay the fact that even though Jammu and Kashmir has a separate Constitution of its own. The Constitution of Jammu and Kashmir itself states that it is an integral part of India,” the minister said.
Over a period of time, he said, there has been a deliberate attempt to develop a narrative based on “so-called Kashmir issue” because “it suits certain political leaders for their electoral benefits and suits some so-called intellectuals to achieve misplaced recognition as Kashmir experts”.
It is an irony that National Conference patriarch Sheikh Abdullah unconditionally accepted the state as an integral part of India as long as he was in power and even approved the extension of the various provisions of Indian Constitution to the state of Jammu and Kashmir, but whenever he was out of power, he would speak of plebiscite, referendum, etc, Singh said. PTI
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