{"id":17159,"date":"2019-03-15T21:29:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T15:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=17159"},"modified":"2019-03-15T21:29:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T15:59:40","slug":"nehrus-mistakes-turned-into-cancer-for-india-amit-shah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=17159","title":{"rendered":"Nehru\u2019s Mistakes Turned Into Cancer For India: Amit Shah"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Delhi, March 15:<\/em><\/strong> BJP President Amit Shah Friday hit back over Rahul Gandhi\u2019s remarks stating that before making such \u201cinsensitive remarks\u201d, the Congress President should think about the mistakes committed by his party and his great grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru on China and Kashmir, which he said had \u201cturned into cancer for the country\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

Rahul Gandhi had blamed the BJP for the release of Jaish-e-Mohammed founder Masood Azhar during the earlier National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government,<\/em><\/p>\n

The BJP Chief\u2019s remarks came after Gandhi, at a public rally in Gandhinagar, asked why Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not telling the nation that it was the earlier National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee, which had released Azhar \u2014 the man behind the Pulwama suicide bombing.<\/em><\/p>\n

Shah added that by raising such questions, the Congress President was not just \u201cdisplaying his insensitivity\u201d but also questioning the wisdom of senior leaders of his own party.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis debate does not start nor end with the release of Masood Azhar. This list is long, and if discussed, the Congress will look like the guilty party,\u201d he wrote in a blog on Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n

Shah said 10 years before the Kandahar flight hijack incident \u2014 which forced the government to release Azhar in exchange for the safe return of over 170 passengers \u2014 the Congress government released 10 terrorists in exchange for then Home Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed\u2019s daughter Rubaiya Sayeed.<\/em><\/p>\n

He said while the decision to release Azhar was taken through consensus in an all-party meeting called by Vajpayee, the UPA government in 2010 unilaterally released 25 terrorists as a goodwill gesture to improve relations with Pakistan, including a terrorist who went on to become one of the main handlers of the Pathankot terror attack.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Congress, which is today raising questions on a decision taken through consensus during a very sensitive situation, how will it answer the question of why those terrorists were released during its governments?\u201d Shah asked in his post.<\/em><\/p>\n

The BJP Chief wrote that at a time when Pakistan was under pressure, such questions being raised by the Congress and its President were helping those aiding terror.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cToday, when the world is not only looking at a strong India but is also standing firmly beside it, the Congress with its statements is helping those countries that do not want to see a strong India,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Shah said the Congress policy against terrorism, separatism and Naxalism had always been unsure and senior \u201cCongress leader Sheila Dikshit had herself admitted that Manmohan Singh\u2019s policy on terrorism was weaker compared to the strict policies of the Modi government\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

He also attacked Nehru for supporting China\u2019s case for inclusion in the United Nation\u2019s Security Council (UNSC) at India\u2019s cost and said the same China was now repeatedly using its position in the Security Council to protect terrorist Masood Azhar by blocking India\u2019s bid to designate him as a global terrorist.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cNehru also made the mistake of taking Kashmir problem to the UN forum. Prior to insensitive comments on terrorism, Rahul Gandhi should consider these two mistakes of his party and Nehru. Both these mistakes have become cancer for the country,\u201d Shah said. (Agencies)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Delhi, March 15: BJP President Amit Shah Friday hit back over Rahul Gandhi\u2019s remarks stating that before making such \u201cinsensitive remarks\u201d, the Congress President should think about the mistakes committed by his party and his great grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru on China and Kashmir, which he said had \u201cturned into cancer for the country\u201d. Rahul […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}