Situation Peaceful in J-K, Does Rahul Want to Create Disturbance, Asks Anurag Thakur

does Rahul Gandhi Wanting to defuse the atmosphere in Kashmir, Union minister Anurag Thakur on Wednesday asked about the Congress’ plan to hoist the tricolor in the Valley and asserted that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir has improved significantly under the Modi government.

The minister told reporters that an estimated 1.6 crore tourists have visited Jammu and Kashmir in a year, which is a record in itself.

“Now tourists can visit every corner of Jammu and Kashmir. This shows that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir has improved. There has been no incident of stone pelting. Does Rahul Gandhi want to spoil the atmosphere by going there?”

“Today, anyone can hoist the tricolor in any part of J&K because Narendra Modi The government has abolished Article 370 and Article 35A in Jammu and Kashmir.

Gandhi’s Connect India tour, which began in Kanyakumari in September, is scheduled to end in Kashmir next month.

Thakur reminded him of the Ekta Yatra undertaken by the then BJP president Murli Manohar Joshi and Narendra Modi in 1992, who unfurled the national tricolor at Lal Chowk in Srinagar.

He said, ‘There was a lot of opposition to the yatra at that time. Terrorist attacks happened, firing incidents happened. It was because there was a Congress government there.

The BJP leader also recalled the Tiranga Yatra undertaken by him in 2011 as president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha.

Thakur said, “The then leaders of opposition in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha – Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley – and I were put in jail because the Congress-National Conference government opposed the Tiranga Yatra.”

“Things were difficult when Articles 370 and 35A were still in force,” he said. He said that the situation in the Kashmir Valley has improved a lot under the Modi government.

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