TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Union minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kiren Rijiju has hit back at Rahul Gandhi after the Congress president criticised the BJP for dumping People’s Democratic Party. Gandhi had said that the “opportunistic BJP-PDP alliance” set fire to Jammu and Kashmir, killing many innocent civilians and brave soldiers, and that the damage would continue even if the state was put under central rule.
However, Rijiju said that it was India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Rahul’s family who created trouble in Kashmir. “Sardar Patel ji solved all other regions. Nehru ji took charge of Kashmir & created more trouble. Thousands of people were killed, Kashmiri Pandits were slaughtered while more than 1,60,000 were forced out. Your family & party ruined Kashmir & you are accusing BJP?” Rijiju said on Twitter.
Hours after the BJP pulled out of the alliance government, Gandhi had said, “Incompetence, arrogance & hatred always fails (sic).” “It cost India strategically & destroyed years of UPA’s hard work. The damage will continue under President’s rule (sic),” he tweeted. The BJP blamed the PDP for failing to improve the security conditions in the Kashmir Valley. The saffron party cited last week’s killing of senior journalist Shujaat Bukhari in the heart of Srinagar in the highly secured area of Press Enclave by unidentified gunmen. The same day–two days before Eid–an army jawan was abducted while going on Eid leave and killed.
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