The Bengal Congress president and the Senior INC Leader, Adhir Ranjhan Chowdhury, did not seem very pleased with the BJP government’s first meeting with the mainstream political parties of the erstwhile state of Jammu Kashmir.
On Friday, Chowdhury remarked that he would “rather wait and watch than be immediately optimistic about any overnight change.”
He said that the BJP government had made several promises after the abrogation of the Article 370, and that nothing came of it and he has no faith in the BJP government and that he doesn’t have any great expectation from it.
He recalled all the claims made by the regime including the return of the Pandits and the vow of capturing Pakistan Occupied Kashmir . He said that the government makes hollow claims.
He also said that the leaders invited for the meeting were put under house arrest by the government and that had been called secessionist elements by the government.
“so now they are bringing out leaders from jails and allowing them to participate in talks. None has forgotten the fact that leaders of this party (BJP), in the recent past, equated some of them with secessionist elements, calling them member of certain gangs,” he said.