Jammu And Kashmir Elections: ‘Come And Join India’; Rajnath Singh To PoK Residents

Ramban: “Unlike Pakistan, India considers the people of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) as their own,” said Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday, September 8. He urged them to sign on for India.

Rajnath Singh said this while addressing a rally your entire way through the Ramban area of Jammu on Sunday, as element of the Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration’s campaign for the upcoming assembly polls your entire way through the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

“I ask all of you to form a BJP government in J&K, and after seeing development in J&K, the people of PoK will say that we do now no longer would love to stick with Pakistan. We are taking a look to move along with India,” Singh said.

“People in Pakistan accept as true with PoK people as foreigners, but India considers the people of PoK as our own. Come and join us,” he added.

On the abrogation of Article 370, Singh said that it was done for the prosperity of Jammu and Kashmir and the BJP has now no longer discriminated against the people of the Union Territory.

“We now have never discriminated against anyone. Our Army is here. I would love to ask you, do they discriminate? You people are fortunate; we have abrogated Article 370. We now have done that for the prosperity and happiness of J&K. What did Article 370 give to you?”

“Be it Congress, National Conference, or People’s Democratic Birthday celebration (PDP), they tell you that the BJP has discriminated against the people of J&K (by abrogating Article 370). I would love to tell you, if we do the remainder wrong, condemn it publicly. We don’t want your beef up by keeping you your entire way through the dark,” said the defence minister claiming that Jammu and Kashmir would change into the #1 state of India in case the BJP remained in power for 10 years there.

“I say with self belief that if the BJP government runs here for 10 years, our Jammu and Kashmir will change into the #1 state of India. Our India, which was at the eleventh place your entire way through the sphere in the case of the scale of the economy, has reached the 5th place this day. I'm now no longer saying this; the sphere’s leading economists and big financial firms are now claiming that India is progressing at the sort of fast %. By 2027, our India will stand in 0.33 place an awful lot of the countries of the sphere in the case of the scale of the economy,” Rajnath Singh said.

Polling in Jammu and Kashmir for ninety assembly constituencies may be held in three phases, September 18, September 25, and October 1 and the counting of votes will happen on October 8.

(With ANI inputs)