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JAMMU: The BJP National Spokesperson, Sudhanshu Trivedi, on Thursday said that the upcoming Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir are historic as this will be first election after J&K became secular, adding that this election is between nationalist forces and anti-national forces.
“People in these Assembly elections have to choose between those promising peace and development (BJP) and those promising death and destruction (NC-Cong),” Sudhanshu Trivedi said during a press conference, here at BJP media center. BJP National Spokesperson, Prem Shukla, J&K BJP Chief Spokesperson, Sunil Sethi, Election Media Center Incharge and BJP Spokesperson, Arun Gupta and BJP Spokesperson, Abhijeet Jasrotia were also present in the press conference.
“After 42nd amendment in the Indian Constitution, government here in J&K adopted the 6 year term for Assembly but did not add the word secular in its constitution,” Sudhanshu said.
At that time, J&K had its own Constitution but after abrogation of Article 370, there is one Constitution, he said.
“This is first election after J&K became secular, first election under one flag and also first election with no stone pelting, no ISIS and Pak flags and no hartals,” he said, adding, “This is also the first election in J&K after OBCs got reservation”.
This election will also be the first election when the Assembly term would be of 5 years, he said.
The NC and Cong want to revive terrorism and separatism, he said and questioned, “Cong must tell who would be released from jails, is it Yasin Malik, Asiya Andrabi or Shabir Shah?”.
Sudhanshu Trivedi also slammed Rahul Gandhi for meeting and talking to those who don’t consider PoJK as part of India but part of Pakistan.
“Rahul recently met some people in USA who do not consider PoJK as part of India but consider it as part of Pakistan,” he said and added, “Indian Parliament had passed a resolution saying that PoJK is an integral part of India and Rahul by meeting such people has insulted the Indian Parliament”.
He said the Home Minister in the Congress government, Sushil Kumar Shinde had recently said that he was afraid of going to Kashmir, adding, “PM Modi has restored peace in Kashmir after abrogation of Article 370 and record number of over 2 crore tourists visited the Valley”.
After 33 years, Muharram procession was taken out in Kashmir, he said adding that J&K is the only state having 2 AIIMS and other prestigious professional and technical educational institutions.
