[Reader-list] Congress on disinformation campaign against pro-nationalists: BJP

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

 Congress on disinformation campaign against pro-nationalists: BJP  PTI
   Jammu, Oct 12: Signalling the start of its political campaign ahead of
the Assembly Elections, BJP on Sunday launched a tirade against Congress by
charging the party with carrying out "machinations and disinformation
campaigns" against pro-nationalist forces.

"We caution the people of Jammu region against machinations and
disinformation campaign being carried out against pro-nationalist forces --
Shri Amarnath Yatra Sangrash Samiti (SAYSS) and BJP. It is being done by
Congress," BJP state president Ashok Kahjuria told a public rally here.

Khajuria said Congress, in its "disinformation campaign", accuses BJP of
being not sincere while the fact is that "almost every Congress minister had
been under investigation for corruption and financial misconduct by the
vigilance department and the accountability commission".

Coming down sharply on Congress state president Saif-uddin Soz, Khajuria,
who was flanked by former state party presidents -- Chaman Lal Gupta and
Nirmal Singh – said till two years back, the Kashmir region was secular but
has ceased to be so.

Jammu is secular and remains so till date, he said adding that Soz did not
feel pained for secularism when minority Kashmiri Pandits were hounded out
of the Valley and their houses burnt and destroyed.

"The Pandit incident was worst kind of ethnic cleansing in post-Independence
era. The recent public movement over Amarnath issue is the outcome of the
Congress and its erstwhile Chief Minister Gulam Nabi Azad," he said. "The
restoration of land to the Amarnath shrine board cannot be termed as
communal as all people, including Muslims and Sikhs of the Jammu region,
stood by the agitation," he said.

Khajuria appealed to the people of the region to get united and claimed only
BJP can restart the trend of Jammu empowerment "in a manner similar to the
path taken by the people of Jammu during the Amarnath agitation".