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Central Finance Minister, Arun Jatley on Wednesday said that Pakistan will have to accept that Kashmir is an integral part of India and it will also have to accept that whatever it does, it can’t get an inch of India.

Jaitley was on a day long visit to Kashmir. He met many delegations at SKICC and asked the gathering to vote for BJP this time.

Addressing the gathering Jatley not only attacked Pakistan but separatism as well. He termed Kashmir as an “integral part of India” and asked Pakistan to shun the idea of “taking any part of India”.

Jatley said, “When Vajpayee became PM he went to Lahore in bus, extended friendship to Islamabad and said that history can be changed but not geography, neighbours cannot be changed but relation could be.”

But this time, no surprise that “even history is being changed by Kashmiris” by voting in large numbers more than Jharkhand people,” Jaitaly said while referring to the first two phases of elections.

“People want change and they are using their vote. There is something between people motivating them to vote and reject the boycott policy,” Jatley said.

Jatley said that Kashmiri people have suffered immensely due to the recent floods and many are still facing the problems. “But now common people have decided to prefer democracy to solve their problems,” Jatley said adding “and we in New Delhi fully understand them.”

Jatley said that Kashmiris have realized that India is a big country and it is growing very rapidly, both economically as well as militarily. “And now India knows how to tackle insurgency,” Jatley said.

In violent situations, where there is no stability, Jaitaly said, “economy suffers and investment in any department becomes impossible.”

“I have been here for years and I have an opinion within my party. I do not have problems in saying that whenever I come to Kashmir I had new friends every time,” Jatley said.

Referring to 2010 uprising, when Jatley came to Srinagar as part of all party delegation, as the “major incident of stone throwing agitation.” Then, he said, a young college going girl told the delegation that though she feels being part of the country, she is not living properly because of massive presence of security forces. “I go to college and I am asked to prove my identity for times and then I reach home and see my mother waiting for her son,” the college girls told the delegation. “The girl told us to change the situation and from that day my thinking about Kashmir is changed,” Jiately said.

Terming the unemployment in Kashmir as “a major issue” Jatley said, “New Delhi is very serious to tackle it.”

Under the constitution, Jatley said “what should be the political relation between the centre and the state of Jammu and Kashmir is being discussed since last 67 years and no result has come out of that but the sufferings of the people are not debated anywhere.”

“We can have different thinking but we should not have difference about J&K’s being an integral part of the country.”

When Vajpayee said that we will find solution of all issues within humanity, “he meant to settle up the issues of terrorism,” Jatley said adding “after Modi took over the policy is that any big or small incident must be taken care of.

Recently Jatley said, “I was defence minister, two boys were killed and I apologized for it within two hours which is for the first time after such killings.”

“Our objective is to establish peace in J&K and put the state on the path of progress,” Jatley said adding “I am personally in love with Kashmir handicraft. Nobody in world can match Kashmir hands.”

He promised to establish an International trading centre for Pashmina in Srinagar.

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