‘BJP stands for corruption free J&K’

Senior BJP leader Kavinder Gupta on Wednesday said his party stands for “corruption free Jammu and Kashmir” and graft charges against the state’s politicians must be probed.

The statement comes after the Enforcement Directoratequestioned former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah inconnection with a money laundering case related to alleged financialirregularities in the state’s cricket association.

   

Gupta, the former deputy Chief Minister of Jammu andKashmir, lashed out at the National Conference, the Peoples Democratic Partyand the Congress leadership, saying if they had delivered good governance inthe past, the situation in Kashmir would have been much better.

“The guilty should be punished as per law,” hesaid without taking any name.

Accusing the opposition leaders of giving”anti-national statements out of frustration” after exhausting alloptions to lure voters, the BJP leader said “rooting out sympathisers ofPakistan from the state in the upcoming assembly elections, schedule of whichhas not been announced yet, is the only solution to all problems”.

He said BJP led government at the centre returned to thepower in 2019 due to its strong developmental, national and foreign policieswhich the opposition parties till cannot digest.

“People of Kashmir want to live a peaceful life butthese politicians play with the emotions of the public,” he said in anapparent reference to the stand taken by NC and PDP for safeguarding Article370 and Article 35A of the constitution which gives special status to Jammu andKashmir.

“Had these politicians delivered good governance withthe focus on raising the living standard of the people by providing bestinfrastructure, the situation in Kashmir would have been different,” Guptasaid.He said people of Kashmir have to understand themotto of such leaders who consider themselves as representatives of Kashmir bygetting only a few per cent of the total votes during polls.

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