Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that he will solve the problems of sixty years in Jammu and Kashmir. He reminded people of his guarantee that the poor would not have to worry about two meals a day. The Prime Minister asserted that lakh of families of the Union Territory have the guarantee of a free ration for the next five years.
Addressing a public rally in Udhampur, PM Modi asserted that this election is not just to elect Members of Parliament but this is an election to form a strong government in the country. When the government is strong, it completes the works by challenging the challenges, he added.
Hitting out at Congress, PM Modi said for the sake of power, they (Congress) had built a wall of 370 in Jammu and Kashmir. Due to the blessings of the people of J&K, Modi demolished the wall of Article 370, he added. He said he had also buried the debris of that wall in the ground. Asserted that he challenged all political parties in India, especially Congress, to announce that they will bring back Article 370, adding that this country won’t even look at them.
Attacking the Opposition parties, he said Congress, National Conference, PDP and all other parties want to take Jammu and Kashmir back to those old days. No one has caused as much damage to Jammu and Kashmir as these family-run parties have done, he charged. Here political party means of the family, by the family and for the family, he asserted.
Speaking on Shahpurkandi Dam, he reminded people of J&K how the weak governments of Congress kept the Dam stalled for decades. The fields of the farmers of Jammu were dry and the villages were in darkness, but the water of Ravi was going to Pakistan, he said. Modi had given a guarantee to the farmers and has fulfilled it also, he added.
The Prime Minister emphasised that he thinks far ahead. He said whatever has happened so far is just the trailer. He has to get busy in creating a new and wonderful picture of the new Jammu and Kashmir, PM said. The time is not far when Assembly Elections will be held in Jammu and Kashmir. The UT will get the status of statehood. You will be able to share your dreams with your MLA and your ministers, PM Modi asserted during a rally in Udhampur.
Meanwhile, former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said that it is the verdict of the Supreme Court, adding that it would have been a favour for us if PM Modi had conducted elections before the verdict of the SC. It is now a compulsion for him, he added. It is the Supreme Court’s verdict to conduct elections in J&K before September 30. As far as statehood is concerned, he could not explain to us till now why was Article 370 removed, Abdullah said.