Afterwards she dismissed the protests in the Kashmir valley as part of a pattern of unrest that has intermittently affected the disputed region since 2008 but said previous Indian governments have failed to deliver on promises for the region. The minister added: “Whatever is happening in Kashmir is not because of its people. whatever is happening is Pakistan-sponsored”.
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“Peace, unity and harmony in Kashmir is everyone’s priority”, Modi said in a speech broadcast on national television, blaming “a few misguided people” for the violence.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh at Parliament house in New Delhi.
In a bipartisan discussion over a deadly unrest in Kashmir, most politicians from across the spectrum on Wednesday urged the government to work out a political solution to problems in and bring peace to the restive Kashmir Valley.
Referring to the contention that the trouble in Kashmir is because of unemployment, Manhas said youth in Jammu and Ladakh, two other regions of the state, are also unemployed but they have not picked up guns and raised anti-India slogans.
More than 68,000 people, mostly civilians, have been killed since rebel groups began fighting Indian forces in 1989 and in a subsequent Indian military crackdown. Even if something happens in our enemy country, Pakistan, he issues condemnation.
“We have decided that on August 12, we will hold an all-party meeting at 12 pm soon after the Parliament session ends and the prime minister will be present”, he said. Azad took a jibe on the PM for making statement on the issue of Dalit from Telangana and not in Parliament. “You must have felt the heat on your head, if not the heart”.
TMC MP Derek O’ Brien said, “We need to go beyond the home ministry statistics”.
Citing media reports, he said Modi spoke on Kashmir on insistance of Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti.
He said both the Centre and the Jammu & Kashmir government were attempting to find a solution to all problems through development.
In a statement, commenting on breaking his criminal silence so late on the human loss and dance of death throughout the state, blinding innocent kids and injuring thousands of youth, Syed Ali Geelani said his inner beast of 2002 Gujrat was still thriving in him despite becoming Prime Minister of India.
Separatist elements in the Valley unleashed a reign of terror in the aftermath of the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani by security forces on 8 July.
“The freedom that every Indian also belongs to every Kashmiri”.
He also attacked Modi for quoting former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Madhya Pradesh, when he touched upon the topic of Kashmir.
Another netizen, Mansoor Tantary wrote,”Again Politician are deceiving people of India by portraying that kashmiris are fighting for development and jobs. I hope that PM Modi who has got big mandate will see this situation as an opportunity and would try to apply balm and start the process of dialogue like Vajpayee did”. “The entire country is with you”, said Modi.
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Though Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who appreciated the bipartisan behaviour of the House, did not mention when a delegation of MPs would be sent to Kashmir, he told the House that the Centre would convene an all-party on the issue, on Friday.
