Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday ruled out a ‘plebiscite’ and blamed Pakistan for the unrest in the valley while saying that the government will go with the consensus in dealing with the issue. Asserting that Kashmiris are “our own people” who are being “misguided”, he said:
Whatever is happening in Kashmir is Pakistan-sponsored. The name is Pakistan but every act is na-pak (impure).
Replying to a debate during the opening day of the Rajya Sabha on the Kashmir situation, Rajnath Singh affirmed that he would talk to Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti regarding the use of pellet guns, which have been blamed for most civilian injuries.
While the Congress opposition leader Ghulam Nabi Azad called the government a ‘misfit’ and said the Kashmir violence was its own creation, Prime Minister Modi said his government had nothing to hide over Kashmir and would take everybody into confidence while dealing with it.
Invoking Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s famous remarks of ‘Kashmiriyat, Jamhooriyat and Insaniyat’ (kashmiriyat, democracy and humanity), Home Minister Rajnath Singh said:
If there is any place for Kashmiriyat in ‘Jamhooriyat’ (democracy), it can be only on the basis of ‘Insaniyat’ (humanity) and not ‘Haivaniyat’ (devilish acts). Those believing in Kashmiriyat and Insaniyat, cannot give space to haivaniyat.
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(With PTI inputs.)
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