Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah on Thursday said the Pakistan defence minister's statement that the Congress and National Conference would lend support to Article 370 and 35A has once "again exposed" the opposition party.
Shah also claimed that the tune of opposition leader Rahul Gandhi's party and Pakistan has always been the same and the Congress has always been "hand in glove with the anti-national forces".
He stated that the statement of Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif proved that the neighboring country and Congress have the same intentions and agenda.
According to a report by India Today, talking about the defense minister of Pakistan's statement over the Congress and the JKNC's support over Article 370 and 35A, Shah wrote on X in Hindi, "Pakistan defence minister's statement about the Congress and the JKNC's support on Article 370 and 35A has once again exposed the Congress. This statement has once again made it clear that the Congress and Pakistan have the same intentions and agenda. For the last few years, Rahul Gandhi has been standing with every anti-India force, hurting the sentiments of the countrymen".
Whether it was seeking proof of air strikes and surgical strikes against Pakistan or uttering "objectionable things" regarding the Indian Army, the tune has been the same: the Congress Party and Pakistan. The Congress has always been "hand in glove with the anti-national forces", he asserted.
But, the Congress party and Pakistan forget that there is Modi government at the Centre, hence neither Article 370 nor terrorism is going to come back in Kashmir," he said.
Pakistan Defence Minister Asif has said that the Shehbaz Sharif government and the Congress-National Conference alliance in Jammu and Kashmir were on the same page on the issue of restoration of Article 370.
"The issue has been made an election issue. Pakistan and the National Conference-Congress alliance are on the same page in Jammu and Kashmir to restore Article 370 and 35A," Asif was quoted as saying in an interview.
The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections have been going on for the first time since five years after Article 370 and Article 35A were abrogated.
Article 370 accorded special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir. Article 35A accorded special rights and privileges to its "permanent residents".
These two provisions of the Constitution were abrogated by the Narendra Modi government on August 5, 2019, and the erstwhile state was bifurcated into two Union Territories — Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.
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