Amit Shah taunts Congress saying former HM Sushil Shinde can now visit Jammu and Kashmir 'with his family'. Why here?
Union Home Minister Amit Shah took a dig at Congress MP Rahul Gandhi over his recent visit to Jammu and Kashmir, saying the opposition leader can eat ice cream and ride a bike there because the NDA government has made the region safe.
Addressing an election rally in Ramban, Jammu and Kashmir, Amit Shah said, "We have made Kashmir safe. Today Rahul baba is riding a bike in Kashmir and eating ice cream at Lal Chowk and is abusing Modiji. Rahul baba, you are abusing Modiji, but it was not possible in your government." the Modi ji has buried terrorism deep down."
Amit Shah was referring to a video from Rahul Gandhi's visit to Jammu and Kashmir last month, in which the Congress MP was seen walking out of an ice cream shop at Srinagar's Lal Chowk. During his Bharat Jodo Nyaya Yatra, Rahul Gandhi was seen riding a bike in Ladakh.
Amit Shah also took a dig at veteran Congress leader Sushil Kumar Shinde, saying the former home minister can now walk Srinagar's Lal Chowk without any fear.
"Sushil Kumar Shinde, who was Home Minister during the Congress government, just made a statement that he was afraid to come to Lal Chowk. Shinde Sahib, now bring your children, visit Lal Chowk. No one. Will dare to harm you," Rambane of Jammu and Kashmir. Amit Shah said in an election rally.
Amit Shah was reacting to Shinde's recent comments where the latter admitted that he was afraid to step out in Kashmir even when he was the home minister in the Congress-led UPA government.
"Before I became home minister, I went to see him (educationist Vijay Dhar). I used to ask him for advice. He advised me to go to Lal Chowk (in Srinagar), meet people and go around Dal Lake instead of walking around. That advice promoted me. And people thought that here was a home minister who went there without any fear, but who am I to say that I was afraid?" Shinde said at the launch of his memoir in Delhi on September 10.
The BJP-led NDA government has credited the decision to abrogate Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir for reducing militancy in the region.
The Congress and the National Conference, which are going to contest the upcoming assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, alleged that the decision was a betrayal of the people of Jammu and Kashmir and vowed to restore it.
