The BJP and Congress on Monday clashed on Jawaharlal Nehru’s Kashmir coverage, with Union Legislation Minister Kiren Rijiju and Minister of Petroleum and Pure Fuel Hardeep Singh Puri slamming Nehru’s determination to take the matter to the UN as a “folly” and “monumental blunder”.
The Congress paid wealthy tributes to Nehru on his 133rd delivery anniversary, as social gathering leaders stated there are “motivated makes an attempt” to malign him and that Union ministers are “abusing Pandit-ji on daily basis.”
On the event, Kharge fired a number of salvos on the prime minister and the federal government. (Specific Photograph by Anil Sharma)
Rijiju, who has criticised Nehru on a number of events in latest days, stated in a sequence of tweets that Nehru let the “fable” of a UN-mandated plebiscite in J&Ok perpetuate and created the “divisive” Article 370. “Nehru was conscious even in June 1947 that each one that Hari Singh needed was to hitch the Indian dominion. Nehru said as a lot in his observe to Mountbatten…individuals of this area, together with the remainder of India, should know the reality of what truly occurred…” he posted.
In Srinagar, Puri stated, “Why was the (Kashmir) subject taken to worldwide or multinational for a? My data has been that then Maharaja Hari Singh was glad to signal the instrument of accession…. However the political management in Delhi was saying they needed it (accession) to be extra broad based mostly and due to this fact they needed a plebiscite. In order that they needed to take it to a multilateral discussion board.”
He stated, “Was it an error of judgment? You possibly can say the person (Nehru) made a mistake however you can not justify it. The historic info are staring you within the face that making the reference (to multinational fora) and calling for a plebiscite isn’t a folly, I believe it’s a monumental blunder…”
Congress basic secretary Jairam Ramesh countered by tweeting, “(Mo)Distorians will proceed to distort, defame and denigrate however Nehru continues to encourage and his relevance has solely elevated after 2014.”
– With inputs from PTI