New Delhi: Addressing the grievances of the people in Kashmir is the need of the hour, BJP leader Ram Madhav has said while reaching out to the agitating masses in the unrest-hit valley saying that when India says Kashmir is ours it also means that Kashmiris are also ours.
The BJP general secretary, the party’s points man on the state, said the entire country feels and shares the suffering and pain of the people of Jammu and Kashmir, especially the Valley, as the ongoing agitation has caused “enormous difficulties” to the people.
He made these comments in a note shared with the central government before the all-party meet on Kashmir on Friday.
He said the “shadowy perpetrators and agent-provocateurs” of this mindless violence and misery should be identified, adding that “a dead body a day” is their agenda.
Those who become cannon fodder for this agenda are mostly innocents, in many cases young and adolescent, while the children of agent-provocateurs lead happy lives in the capitals of rich western countries, he asserted.
“The entire country feels and shares the suffering and pain of the people of J&K, especially the Valley… When we say Kashmir is ours, we are not talking about the land alone; it is not just about the geography; it is demography also; it is about people also. Kashmir is ours; means Kashmiris are also ours.
“Need of the hour is to address the grievances of the agitating people of the Valley. We should assure them that their grievances would be taken care of,” he said. Referring to demands of ‘azadi’ from a section of people in the state, he said the government will fully support them in their endeavour for “azadi from backwardness and under- development. Sky is the limit. Within the framework of our Constitution, the people of J&K have every right to demand more and more. The country will never let them down.”