NEW DELHI: Congress today charged the Modi Government with pushing Jammu and Kashmir back to the 1990s, when militancy was at its peak, due to its wrong policies and said what was happening in the State was the “Gujarat model” from which the people needed to be saved.
Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said the BJP, which is in power both at the Centre and in the State, should take the blame for the “excessive” use of force in Kashmir in the wake of protests over Hizbul militant Burhan Wani’s killing in an encounter.
He also accused Pakistan of fomenting trouble in Kashmir and being responsible for its “destruction” ever since the partition.
“The way BJP has put pressure on regional political parties and blackmailed them to form a Government with it…. otherwise they will not get money from the Centre.
“Today this BJP Government has brought the situation in Kashmir, which had normalised, back to the 1990s because of its wrong policies,” he said, adding the previous Congress dispensations had treated it as a serious issue and restored normalcy. (AGENCIES)
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