Prime Minister NarendraModi will solve all problems of Kashmiris, the BharatiyaJanata Party general secretary Ram Madhav said here on Friday, and urged people to vote for his party in the ongoing general elections.
Madhav made the remarks during his brief visit to Srinagarwhere he interacted with first-time voters under ‘Modihai to mumkinhai’programme.
“Development is the solution to all problems in Kashmir,” hetold the gathering.
He appealed to the people, especially youths, to take partin the elections enthusiastically. “Exercise you right to vote and elect peoplewho will lead Kashmir on the path of development,” Madhav said, adding thatduring the past more than five years of BJP rule, “there has been a lot ofdevelopment in Kashmir”.
He said the BJP’s candidate for the Srinagar-BudgamLokSabhaconstituency, Khalid Jehangir, is “one of the Centre’s representatives inKashmir”.
“Everybody, especially the youths, should come forward andvote for Khalid,” he said, and expressed satisfaction over the electioncampaign being run in favour of the BJP candidate.
Madhav said that Modi will have a “golden handshake with allglobal leaders in 2019” and “after his return to power again, things willchange drastically”.
He said the Modi-led government has taken “strong action”against militancy but “at the same time, we have undertaken many developmentalactivities in the state”.
“It is because of this reason that people in the state arehappy and there is peace all around,” he said.
The BJP leader said that they know “it will take time forour party to grow here (in Kashmir Valley), but we will continue with ourattempts in this direction”.
Madhav lashed out at what he called “dynastic rulers”.
Without naming anyone, he said: “These dynasts have lootedthe state. It is time for people of Jammu and Kashmir to punish them,” he said,adding that “other families in the state have now produced leaders”.
He said these (dynastic) families have an understandingamongst themselves.
“One loots the state for five years and then is thrown outof power and then the other starts looting the state,” he alleged. “They have afive-year contract to loot the state”.
Khalid Jehangir also addressed the gathering and urged thepeople to “vote for truth”.
“Until now, nobody has told truth to the people of thestate, who were fooled with fake slogans. I am going door-to-door and tellingtruth to the people of Kashmir,” he said, adding that unemployment, corruption,nepotism and other issues are “burning matters in the state”.