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MEERUT: Senior BJP leader Devender Singh Rana on Saturday said the return of peace in Kashmir after abrogation of Article 370 by Narendra Modi Government has transformed J&K and changed the entire narrative with fear and hate mongers itching for regaining political space, they rightly lost due to their self-centric, deceptive, dubious, exploitative, and anti-people discourse for lust of power. “With pathbreaking economic and developmental initiatives set in motion by the Centre and implemented in missionary mode by the Lieutenant Governor’s administration, the face of Jammu and Kashmir has altogether changed,” Rana said while addressing public meetings in Meerut and Bulandsahar Lok Sabha Parliamentary constituencies alongwith Choudhary Bhupendra Singh, BJP State President UP, Member Parliament Rajinder Aggarwal, Dr Bhola Singh, UP Ministers, Dr. Arun Saxena, Surinder Tomar, MLAs and other senior party leaders, as part of the month-long Maha Jansamparak Abhiyan.Responding to curious queries of the audience about the encouraging turnaround in the Valley situation, leading to unprecedented tourist footfall in Jammu and Kashmir during the past three years, Rana said this is because the people have realized the futility of alien gun culture and developed stakes in peace for development, progress, and prosperity. Obviously, this has unnerved the fringe vested interests who thrived on instability and unrest for furthering their political agenda for decades. But, seeing the peoples’ preference for peace over stone-pelting and shut-down syndrome, they too have now fallen in line and started seeking their political rehabilitation. They have treated J&K as their fiefdom and power as their birthright, he observed. “People of Jammu and Kashmir have not only reposed their faith in peace, after having realised its dividends, but also vetoed the entitlement of dynasts to corridors of power as a matter of their elite right,” Rana said, adding that the BJP will continue to work towards fulfilling the mass yearning for stability and normalcy in this part of the country–a jewel in the crown of India. He said the Prime Minister’s mission of Naya Jammu and Kashmir is to be carried forward by consolidating the gains of peace to bring about economic emancipation to the people. The influx of over 1.8 crore pilgrim, nature and adventure tourists last year has brought cheer in the lives of lakhs of stakeholders engaged in tourism trade. He said the tourism being the major mainstay of Jammu and Kashmir is hugely dependent on peace and this realisation among the people has made all the difference.
