SRINAGAR: Asserting that talks with Pakistan and the prevailing situation cannot coexist, Senior BJP leader Devender Singh Rana labelled Pakistan as the hub of militancy.
He said that engaging with the neighbouring state, marred by militancy and failure, holds no meaning.
Speaking to the media during the weekly public hearing at the BJP headquarters in Trikuta Nagar, Devender Rana, accompanied by Veena Khanna, BJP State Secretary, and Shalinder Vaid, BJP Additional Protocol Secretary, reiterated the national leadership’s stance that dialogue and terrorism are incompatible.
He said the advocacy of talk with Pak, coming in the backdrop of gruesome and unfortunate recent militancy-related incidents, is all the more worrisome.
“There is a need to be extra vigilant against the terror ecosystem that instantaneously jumps to provide cover to acts of terror. A few people may try to condone or downplay the barbarism unleashed by terrorists in terms of death and devastation caused, and continuously being perpetrated, by the Pakistani lackeys but that doesn’t change the ugly face of terrorism this part of the country has been witnessing. Also, engagement with sovereign countries is a central subject and those poking noses were venturing out to forbidden domains and trying to carve out an unsolicited role for themselves,” he said.
Rana said that militancy emanating from Pakistan is on its last breath on the Indian soil of Jammu and Kashmir due to focused operations by the security forces, the police and more importantly the people of the Valley in particular, who are realising the dividends of peace now ever than before as economically humming Valley is booming with multifarious activities in the wake of unprecedented arrival of tourists, adventurers and sports persons.
“This momentum in socio-economic activities, which might be uncomfortable for those basing their politics on boiling Kashmir for the lust of power, will have to be carried forward with active cooperation of the people as per the cherished agenda of the Prime Minister, who believes in Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas, Sabka Prayas. For realising the vision of Naya Jammu and Kashmir, it is incumbent for all to strengthen the hands of Yashasvi Narendra Modiji, he added.
