“It was a name from her land and Mata that took her to Kashmir,” she reminisced
Bishnah (Jammu):
The Congress will restore Jammu and Kashmir’s statehood, celebration chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra stated on Saturday whereas she slammed the BJP for utilizing the Union territory as a pawn to “stir feelings” elsewhere within the nation.
Ms Gandhi, the Congress’s nationwide common secretary, additionally criticised Lt Governor Manoj Sinha saying the present administration was a “puppet” authorities being run with a distant management.
“The Congress celebration has a imaginative and prescient for you and for Jammu and Kashmir. We need to restore your state’s standing. If our authorities involves energy, we are going to instantly restore your statehood. We can even revive the custom of the Darbar Transfer,” Ms Vadra informed a public rally right here.
Darbar Transfer refers back to the bi-annual shift of presidency workplaces, together with the secretariat, between Jammu and Srinagar in view of the tough winter in J-Okay.
“We need to defend your rights, your rights to your land and your employment,” stated Ms Gandhi whereas talking in help of the celebration candidate in Bishnah, Neeraj Kundan.
Hitting out at Amit Shah’s remarks on the statehood concern, she stated “I discovered it amusing when the house minister stated in his speech that if you’d like statehood again, you could vote for us. However the reality is, they’re those who took it away. It is sort of a thief who steals your TV after which says, ‘If you need it again, ask me.’ “They declare solely they’ll return it. If our authorities involves energy, we are going to instantly restore your statehood,” Ms Gandhi stated hitting out on the BJP authorities for “downgrading” J-Okay right into a Union territory.
She added “That is the height of the nation. Nature has given you everything-these sources, this magnificence. From right here got here the nice sages who unfold religion, tradition and teachings not solely in India however in different international locations too.” However the BJP has snatched all the things you have got, the Congress chief added.
Recalling her grandmother Indira Gandhi’s “deep bond” with Kashmir, she stated, “4 or 5 days earlier than Indira Gandhi’s assassination, she informed us she needed to go to Kashmir and see the autumn leaves. She introduced us to the Kheer Bhawani temple, and just some days after returning to Delhi, she was assassinated.
“It was a name from her land and Mata that took her to Kashmir,” she reminisced, emphasising her household’s longstanding relationship with the area.
Ms Gandhi additionally attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi throughout her speech, saying he was not severe in regards to the considerations of the folks of J-Okay.
BJP leaders have turned Jammu and Kashmir right into a pawn of their political chess recreation as insurance policies aren’t being made for the folks of the area, she stated.
“They’re created to stir feelings throughout the nation utilizing you and serve political functions,” Ms Gandhi stated.
“Even in Modi Ji’s speech, there was no seriousness in regards to the real considerations of the folks of Jammu and Kashmir. Fixing railway stations just isn’t an achievement to boast about when the larger problems with your rights, land, and employment are being ignored,” she stated.
“What actually issues are the real considerations of the folks of J-Okay. Why aren’t these being addressed? Why aren’t they specializing in the reality? When did the prime minister take away your state’s standing? The Congress chief additionally raised the difficulty of unemployment in her speech, claiming that half of the contracts meant for J-Okay had been awarded to outsiders. “You will have been disadvantaged of your voting rights, and small companies are being crushed by massive companies. Why is Jammu and Kashmir lagging behind in employment? Why is there a lot unemployment?” The BJP authorities, she stated, has established a “system of loot, with a puppet authorities operating issues by distant management”, she stated.
“Land banks are being created, and your lands are being handed over to large industrialists, the identical ones whom Modi Ji has favoured throughout the nation. The identical is occurring right here in Jammu and Kashmir,” Ms Gandhi stated.
Criticising the federal government on the Agnipath scheme, Ms Gandhi stated, “They launched Agniveer, a scheme that provides nothing to those that danger their lives on the borders and develop into martyrs. This is the reason all opposition events are combating and elevating this concern repeatedly.
“This authorities and the prime minister are so boastful that despite the fact that they know the scheme is flawed and never helpful for the youth, they refuse to again down,” she stated.
She additionally touched on the drug habit downside plaguing the area, saying that no BJP chief talks about it as a result of they know the basis trigger is unemployment. “On account of joblessness, individuals are falling prey to the drug mafia,” she stated.
Ms Gandhi referred to as on the folks of Jammu and Kashmir to vote correctly, underlining that the Congress’s imaginative and prescient consists of the restoration of statehood, safety of land rights of locals, and employment alternatives for its folks.
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