Former Union Minister Balasaheb Vikhe-Patil passes away
Veteran Congress leader and former Union Minister Balasaheb Vikhe-Patil passed away at his home following a long illness. He was…
Information and Broadcasting Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Thursday accused Congress leader P Chidambaram of trying to “unsettle” the state government in Jammu and Kashmir by suggesting that the Congress, NC and PDP should come together to stop the violence in the valley.
"Congress wants to unsettle a democratically elected government. What do you mean when you say Congress, NCP and PDP should come together. There is a democratically elected government in the state, you are suggesting unsettling it in order to get some political benefit," Naidu said.
Former Home Minister, Chidambaram, in a statement, had said that the Congress, National Conference and the ruling People&’s Democratic Party (PDP), which at present in an alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), should join hands to end violence in Kashmir.
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Naidu further accused Congress of speaking in different voices on strategic matters and also of being "callous" on sensitive issues.
He said while Congress has sought to distance itself from recent statements of Chidmabaram and other leaders, Kapil Sibal and Salman Khurshid, they have been its think tank for several years.
Naidu said it appears that Congress is at odds with its "lawyers brigade", on which its relied heavily when it was in power.
He also hit out at former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, saying he seemed to be speaking in frustration forgetting what had happened when he was in power when more than a hundred poeple were killed.
He claimed Congress was "consistently inconsistent" with regard to Pakistan and also Jammu and Kashmir. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi echoed the sentiments of the people, even then Congress tried to find faults with it, he said.
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