Stating that the entire world is together to isolate Pakistan on the terror issue, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday said India has made it very clear that terrorism is “not acceptable at all” to it which Pakistan has made its “state policy.”
Naidu accused Pakistan of supporting terrorism against India while asserting that Jammu & Kashmir is an integral part of India and there could be “no compromise” on it.
“Our neighbour is aiding, abetting, funding, trading terrorists. They have made terrorism a state policy. Entire world has come together to isolate Pakistan and condemn Pakistan(-backed) terrorism. Terrorismis not acceptable at all. We have been very clear about it,” he said, without making direct mention of Uri terror attack.
The senior BJP leader said “(no matter) how many times they (Pakistan) raise the Kashmir issue, Jammu & Kashmir will remain an integral part of India and there is no question of compromise on it.”
Naidu made these remarks during an event in which he renamed the ‘Paryavaran Bhawan’, located in Central Government Offices (CGO) Complex, as ‘Pundit Deendayal Antyodaya Bhawan’. Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs (Independent Charge) Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi also attended the event to mark the birth centenary of BJP ideologue Deendayal Upadhyay.
He said that the NDA Government does not work on communal line and added that a terrorist is “neither a Hindu nor Muslim” as he pitched for “integrated nationalism”.
“We should seek inspiration from our history. You may (religion wise) be Hindu, Muslim, Christian, but we all are Indians. Our ancestors are one,” he said.
Naidu, while referring to the debate on nationalism, said the slogan of Bharat Mata ki Jai is not a dialogue of any film but an act of “uplifting poorest of poor” of the country.
He described first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru as a “great patriot”, while adding that Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel and Subhas Chandra Bose “too were great patriots”.
Naidu further said the NDA Government is trying to name memorials, institutes and Government structures after “forgotten heroes” of the country.