The BJP on Sunday hit back at the Congress over its criticism of the Government’s Kashmir policy, saying it does not need a certificate from a party “which described India as having occupied Kashmir”.
Referring to the Congress releasing a booklet in lucknow with an incorrect map of the country, labelling the entire state of Jammu and Kashmir as “India occupied Kashmir”, Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu said people would never forgive the party for such a “mindset”.
“Is it for this that hundreds of our brave soldiers have given up their lives over the years defending our sovereignty and territorial integrityIJ” he said in Hyderbad and asked if the final solution that the Congress had in mind was to give Kashmir to Pakistan.
Asserting that the Government has a very strong Kashmir policy, party spokesperson Shahnawaz Hussain said it is making a distiction and treating differently the common Kashmiris, terrorists and separatists and “this policy is bearing fruits”.
The Government and the security forces are on the same page and they are working to root out Pakistan-sponsored terrorism, he said in Delhi.