Union legislation minister Kiren Rijiju has stirred a row by accusing India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of committing “5 blunders” that he stated hobbled India and created the Kashmir downside, sparking indignant rebuttals from Opposition events.
In an article for Information 18 marking Shaurya Diwas, to commemorate the touchdown of Indian troops at Srinagar airport on October 27, 1947 to evict Pakistan-backed tribesmen from the Valley, Rijiju additionally stated Prime Minister Narendra Modi was trying to proper the errors of the previous by successfully abrogating Article 370 and integrating the area with the remainder of India.
“Seven many years had been misplaced as a consequence of these Nehruvian blunders & India paid a heavy value…lastly historical past took a flip in 2019 when India First was the one tenet,” tweeted Rijiju, referring to the August 2019 choice to scrap Jammu and Kashmir’s particular standing and bifurcate it into two Union Territories.
The Congress hit again on the minister and alleged he was mendacity.
In his article, Rijiju claimed that the 5 errors made by Nehru had been “rejecting Maharaja Hari Singh’s request for accession in July 1947 itself to advance a private agenda, declaring the eventual accession as Provisional, method UNO beneath Article 35 and NOT Article 51, letting the parable perpetrate that UN mandated plebiscite was in any approach an open query and institutionalizing the separatist mindset by creating Article 370”.
“What our first PM Nehru did with Kashmir has triggered a lot tragedy. It has drained the nationwide wealth. It has taken away the unaccounted lives of the jawans and the civilians. And, due to that blunder, in the present day, Kashmir has unnecessarily develop into a difficulty,” he instructed information company ANI.
A number of Union ministers, together with Piyush Goyal, Smriti Irani, Pralhad Joshi, and different BJP leaders resembling Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma backed Rijiju.
“Union legislation minister @KirenRijiju corroborated that India paid a heavy value as a result of 5 #KashmirBlundersofNehru. Writing about this, he pointed that seven many years & generations of alternatives have been misplaced as a consequence of blunders of 1 man,” tweeted Joshi.
Hitting again, Congress common secretary Jairam Ramesh shared an article to say “pseudo-historians and peddlers of lies like Kiran Rijiju and his ilk” ought to learn them whereas occasion spokesperson Pawan Khera additionally slammed the BJP.
Khera stated BJP leaders had been college students of “WhatsApp nursery” and there was a necessity for them to revisit historical past lessons.
“If all that they’re saying is true, how is it that throughout the Manmohan Singh period focused killings stopped and 75% of the individuals participated within the democratic strategy of elections within the state? We might be completely happy to get the reply to that,” Khera stated. He was referring to a spate of focused killings in Kashmir in current weeks, together with that of migrants, non-locals and Kashmiri Pandits.