Kashmir issue is the biggest failure of Modi govt : Congress

Kashmir issue is the biggest failure of Modi govt : Congress

The Congress attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the Kashmir issue, calling it one of his government’s biggest “failures”, and wondered what India gained out of his foreign trips when he failed to stall the “pathetic” UN report on the alleged human rights violation there.

Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera underlined his party’s concern over the situation in the Valley, and asked the government to make public the measures it is taking for the security of the pilgrims of the Amarnath Yatra, which is scheduled to start on June 28.

“Are you (government) capable of giving the pilgrims security?” he asked at a press conference.

The Congress has been waiting for four years for an all-party meeting on the Kashmir issue, Khera said.

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He accused the BJP of turning Kashmir into an “abhorrent laboratory” of its experiment of “communal politics” and alleged that the situation in the Valley is not only a failure of the central government’s internal policies but also its foreign policy.

The state of affairs in the Valley has become worse than what it was in 1990s, he told reporters, noting that the Election Commission is unable to hold the Lok Sabha bypolls in Anantnag due to law and order problems.

A by-election recorded a paltry seven per cent polling under the present dispensation as against 71 per cent witnessed during the UPA’s tenure, Khera said.

“Kashmir will be listed among one of the biggest failures of the Modi government. The situation there is becoming perhaps worse than what it was in the 1990s,” he said, adding that 57 major attacks have taken place there in 27 days.