{"id":35059,"date":"2020-11-16T22:07:23","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T16:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=35059"},"modified":"2020-11-16T22:07:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T16:37:23","slug":"gupkar-alliance-wants-what-pakistan-does-claims-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=35059","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Gupkar Alliance wants what Pakistan does,\u2019 claims BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Questions Congress\u2019 stand on Article 370<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n

New Delhi<\/strong>: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday criticised the newly formed People\u2019s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration, or Gupkar Alliance, describing it as \u201cunholy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

At a press conference, the BJP\u2019s spokesperson Sambit Patra said that the alliance was aimed at opposing the implementation of laws duly passed by Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

“Gupkar Alliance wants exactly what Pakistan and anti-India countries want,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPakistan has gone to every forum and spoken against the removal of Article 370. The Gupkar Alliance says the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

The People\u2019s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration, a tie-up of six parties, which was formed in October with the agenda of reinstating the now abrogated Article 370 of the Constitution, which provided special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Patra\u2019s comments come ahead of the District Development Council polls in Jammu and Kashmir, which the Gupkar Alliance parties have decided to fight together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Pointing out that the Congress, too, is part of the alliance, Patra referred to a statement which he said was released by the party\u2019s Jammu and Kashmir president Ghulam Ahmed Mir, who called for defeating \u201cthe forces that have forcefully [been] implementing the laws in the Union Territory\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Taking exception to this statement, Patra said that the law to abrogate Article 370 was passed in the Parliament. He further hit back at the Congress for suggesting that it was being forcefully implemented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe BJP would like to ask Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi if they stand by the comments made by leaders in the Gupkar Alliance,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

He also made references to an alleged comment made by National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah on taking \u201cChina\u2019s support\u201d on the matter of reinstating Article 370 and Peoples Democratic Party Leader Mehbooba Mufti\u2019s recent comments on the national flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cIs this alliance Gupkar or Guptachar (spy)?\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Patra remarked. \u201cI would want Rahulji and Soniaji [to say] if they are in agreement with the statements made by Mufti and Abdullah.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

The BJP spokesperson also took cue from the recent comments made by former United States President Barack Obama and Rashtriya Janata Dal leader Shivanand Tiwari on Rahul Gandhi, to criticise the Congress leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen Obama got to know him [Gandhi] in four-five days, then people who interact with him on a daily basis, would also have realised what he is,\u201d he said. Referring to Tiwari\u2019s comment he said that Gandhi was \u201ca non-performing picnicking president\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

In a separate press conference, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad cited laws that have been brought into force in Jammu and Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370 and asked if the Congress supports their annulment, reported PTI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cI want to ask Sonia Gandhi [Congress president] and Rahul Gandhi, do they want restoration of Article 370?\u201d he said. \u201cPlease tell the nation categorically and clearly does the Congress support annulment of pro-people laws?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

He said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir were earlier disadvantaged due to non-implementation of central laws, and accused the Gupkar Alliance of \u201cnarrow conservatism\u201d, according to PTI. (KINS)<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Questions Congress\u2019 stand on Article 370 New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday criticised the newly formed People\u2019s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration, or Gupkar Alliance, describing it as \u201cunholy\u201d. At a press conference, the BJP\u2019s spokesperson Sambit Patra said that the alliance was aimed at opposing the implementation of laws duly passed by Parliament. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26205,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35059","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=35059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35059\/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=35059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}