Ahmedabad: BJP chief and the party’s Gandhinagar contestant Amit Shah on Saturday held a roadshow here, where he made people chant a slogan that “entire Kashmir belongs to us”.
His slogan-chanting comes in the wake of PDP chief and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mehbooba Mufti’s criticism that Mr Shah was “daydreaming” about abrogating Article 370 of the Constitution that provides special status to the state.
Mr Shah held the roadshow in the city as part of his election campaign, which comes on the day of his party’s 39th foundation day.
Before embarking on the roadshow from Sarkhej area in Ahmedabad around 9 am, Mr Shah garlanded the photographs of Jan Sangh founders Deendayal Upadhyaya and Syama Prasad Mookerjee.
Mr Shah made the people present there chant, “Jaha hue balidan Mookerjee, woh Kashmir hamara hai... Sara ka sara hamara hai. (Where Mookerjee sacrificed his life, that Kashmir is ours, that entire Kashmir is ours).”
Reacting to the reported remarks made by Mr Shah underscoring the BJP’s commitment to abrogate Articles 370 and 35-A, Ms Mufti had recently said if the constitutional provision was removed, mainstream politicians, including her, will have to reconsider their future course of action.
“I want to tell Amit Shah that you are daydreaming if you think you will abrogate Article 370,” Ms Mufti had said. Article 370 grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir and limits Parliament’s power to make laws concerning the state. Mr Shah conducted the roadshow in an open vehicle with BJP leaders.
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