The issue of Kashmir reverberated during an election rally in the south Indian state of Karnataka as the Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has merged Jammu Kashmir forever with India by abrogating Article 370.
Speaking about Jammu Kashmir during a public rally at Sandur, in poll-bound Karnataka, Shah said the Congress, JD(S), and other parties in the opposition were saying that article 370 of the Constitution, which gave special status to Jammu and Kashmir, should not have been abrogated, Times Now reported.
However, Modi with a stroke of his pen abrogated article 370 and made the state part of India forever, he said.
The Minister said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi used to say that there will be bloodbath if the article 370 is abolished. “Let alone bloodbath, there was no one who threw even a pebble there. This is the BJP government,” Shah said.
Shah also said there has been improvement in the situation in Jammu Kashmir and terrorism-related figures were at their lowest. He said Article 370 pertaining to Jammu and Kashmir, which was abrogated by the BJP-led government in 2019, had harmed the country. “See all the figures, there is a lot of change in Jammu Kashmir,” he said.