‘Those who support terrorism will meet the fate of Afzal Guru, will burry terrorism forever’
Arun Jasrotia
Udhampur, Sep 26 (TDD): Firing back to back salvos at the Congress leader and the leader of the opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi, Union Minister for Home Amit Shah Wednesday asked Rahul to tell the nation what Indhira Gandhi used to call National Conference patriarch Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah.
“You (Rahul) claim that outsiders are ruling J&K, can you tell the nation about what your grandmother Indhira Gandhi used to call Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah? Why Congress booked Sheikh and lodged him in jail for 22 years,” Shah said in a direct attack on Rahul in a massive rally at Udhampur in Jammu. “Didn’t Congress prepare a white paper against Sheikh once? Can you (Rahul) make that white paper public, no you can’t,” Shah said.
He said wasn’t Sheikh Abdullah anti-national for Congress? The Home Minister said that it was because of the blunder of Jawahar Lal Nehru that PoK was with Pakistan today. Taking a jibe at National Conference vice president Omar Abdullah, by stating that he (Omar) says, Afzal Guru shouldn’t have been hanged.
“Tell me, Phir kya biryani khilani thi usko (Was I supposed to give him Biryani),’ Shah asked, adding that “Those who would support or promote terrorism will meet the same fate as that of Afzal Guru.”
Guru was hanged in New Delhi’s Tihar jail on February 9, 2013 for his involvement in attack on Parliament. Shah also aised slogan: “Jahan huway balidan Mukherji, wo Kashmir Hamara hai, Sara Kashmir Hamara Hai (where Jan Sangh founder Shama Prassad Mukherji was martyred, that Kashmir is ours, entire Kashmir is ours).
“Rahul baba and Omar Abdullah claims they will bring back Article 370. Let me tell him that if your next three generations will come and fight for it, we will not allow restoration of Article 370,” said Shah in an obvious reference to Rahul and Omar. “This is not Abdhullah regime but Modi regime.”
He said when Kashmir witnessed 40,000 killings, Abdullahs were enjoying vacations in London. “These people gave guns in the hands of youth through terrorism. We also want to give guns in the hands of youth of Udhampur, Jammu, Chenani not through terrorism but through police and security forces recruitment,” Shah said.
He said that in NC and Congress rule, Cinemas were closed and Muharram procession was banned. “We opened Cinema halls and also allowed Muharram procession after 35 years,” Shah said (TDD).
