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New Delhi: Kashmiri youths have a responsibility to ensure that they are not misled by people who have no conscience, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said here on Saturday.
Speaking at the ‘Kashmiri Students’ Conference’ organised by the Muslim Rashtriya Manch, an RSS affiliate, the Minister of State for Prime Minister’s Office said it is the youth which has to take responsibility of course correction.
“Some problems have their origins in local context. And it’s our youth who have to take responsibility for their course correction. Because we (the youth), in our innocence, fail to comprehend that we are being misled by people who have no conscience…
“It’s our responsibility to make sure that the youth are not led astray,” he said.
The Government’s hope in Kashmir lies in the Valley’s youth who have become more “awakened” than in the past and want peace and development, Singh said.
He said politicians should refrain from using different languages in different regions of the state.
“Politicians who talk in one language in Kashmir and adopt a different tone in Jammu and in Delhi have also done ‘injustice’ to the people of the Valley,” the minister said.
He said the youth in the Valley want peace and development which share a reciprocal relationship.
Singh also claimed that the Modi government has given and done for more for the welfare of Jammu and Kashmir in the last two years than has ever been done in the past. “We have a common stake regardless of our religious affiliation. The aim of any citizen-centric government must be to employ ability and not employment, so that the person can earn his employment,” he said.
Briefing the reporters, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Prime Minister asserted that the poor and poverty are not a tool for winning elections BJP and that it does not look at them through vote-bank glasses.
Modi cited a string of government’s measures, including Jan Dhan accounts, Beti Bachao Beti Padhao, Swachh Bharat, and said the poor have inner strength to overcome poverty and his government has been working to empower them.
Sources said he also asked party leaders to not seek poll tickets for their kin, saying organisation will take care of the exercise.
