New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasized upon the government’s decision to revoke Article 370 and attacked Congress alleging that their wrong policies led to “systematic failure” in Jammu and Kashmir over decades and weakened India’s national security on a continuous basis over the last 70 years.
Modi was addressing in Ellenabad in Haryana’s Sirsa district on the last day of campaigning for the 2019 Haryana Assembly election. He said that Article 370 was a temporary provision but the Congress did not do anything for 70 years due to which the people of Jammu and Kashmir faced a systematic degradation in the state.
“Decades of spreading hate in society, which was fueled by Pakistan, led to the systematic destruction of the social fabric of the state,” he said. Yet again, the Congress government “turned a blind eye”, he said, adding that “Each time the sword of the temporary Article 370 was used to create fear.”
The Prime Minister also said that “four lakh Kashmiri Pandits were then forced to leave their homes in the valley, and under the threat of guns and bombs, Pakistan introduced cross-border terror and overshadowed the culture of peace and Sufism.”
