Former Congress president Rahul Gndhi, who is on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir, on Tuesday hit out at the government and said a bit of Kashmiriyat still in his veins. Gandhi family lives in Delhi, before that in Allahabad and before that in Kashmir, he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
On his first visit to Jammu and Kashmir after the abrogation of Article 370, Gandhi visited the Kheer Bhawani temple and Dargah Hazratbal shrine in Ganderbal before inaugurating a party office in Srinagar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gandhi was accompanied by the party\u2019s general secretary organisation K C Venugopal and AICC incharge Jammu and Kashmir affairs Rajni Patil to the famous Ragnya Devi temple popularly known as Kheer Bhawani, a Congress leader said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gandhi also slammed the Centre for not allowing the Congress leaders to speak in Monsoon Session of Parliament. The Congress leaders wanted to raise issues such as Pegasus, unemployment, Kashmir, corruption but weren\u2019t allowed, Gandhi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the first time Gandhi shared the stage with Ghulam Nabi Azad, one of the dissident of the G-23 group who had demanded to change the Congress’ Central leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Azad, who flayed the Centre for the August 5 move, said 16,500 people were jailed; even former chief ministers were not spared. He also reiterated that elections could be held only after the statehood demand was met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Addressing the party headquarters in Srinagar, Azad made it clear that the Congress don’t want an assembly like Delhi and Pondicherry in Jammu and Kashmir where the Lieutenant Governor runs the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jammu and Kashmir is a border state which did not want 35A but its provisions. It needs a system like Himachal and Uttarakhand, under which employment should be for the people of Jammu and Kashmir, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Azad said that the Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh are smaller than Jammu and Kashmir whose land rights were granted and ensured by Maharaja Hari Singh. Joblessness has peaked and industries have collapsed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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