Kiren Rijiju accused Nehru of ‘Five Blunders’ on Kashmir
First Published: 28th October, 2022 14:25 IST
Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma backed Rijiju.
Union law minister Kiren Rijiju has stirred a row by accusing India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of committing “five blunders” that he said hobbled India and created the Kashmir problem, sparking angry rebuttals from Opposition parties.
In an article marking Shaurya Diwas, to commemorate the landing of Indian troops at Srinagar airport on October 27, 1947, to evict Pakistan-backed tribesmen from the Valley, Rijiju also said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was attempting to right the mistakes of the past by effectively abrogating Article 370 and integrating the region with the rest of India.
In his article, Rijiju claimed that the five mistakes made by Nehru were rejecting Maharaja Hari Singh’s request for accession in July 1947 itself to advance a personal agenda, declaring the eventual accession as Provisional, approach UNO under Article 35 and not Article 51, letting the myth perpetrate that UN-mandated plebiscite was in any way an open question and institutionalizing the separatist mindset by creating Article 370.
Meanwhile, Several Union ministers, including Piyush Goyal, Smriti Irani, Pralhad Joshi, and other BJP leaders such as Maharashtra deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma backed Rijiju.
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