{"id":20339,"date":"2022-03-24T07:53:05","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T07:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=20339"},"modified":"2022-03-24T07:53:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T07:53:09","slug":"why-did-nehru-internationalise-kashmir-issue-by-taking-it-to-un-sitharaman-in-rs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/24\/why-did-nehru-internationalise-kashmir-issue-by-taking-it-to-un-sitharaman-in-rs\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Nehru internationalise Kashmir issue by taking it to UN: Sitharaman in RS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New Delhi:<\/strong> Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday accused the country\u2019s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru of internationalising the Kashmir issue by taking it to the United Nations and said India\u2019s neighbour was still misusing it.
The minister targeted the Congress on the issue while replying to a discussion on the Budget 2022-23 for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir (J-K) in Rajya Sabha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Congress internationalised the issue. It was our first Prime Minister Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru ji who took it to the United Nations in December 1947. Why? \u201cThe issue was internationalised and our neighbour is still misusing it. Who is responsible for this,\u201d Sitharaman said.
The minister said the Kashmir issue should not have gone to a global forum.
\u201dIt is essentially an Indian issue. We could have handled it. We are handling it, and we are showing the difference now,\u201d she said, maintaining that Jammu and Kashmir is an integral part of India.
Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma, however, sought to defend Nehru\u2019s actions.
\u201cI would like to set the record straight. If the matter was taken to the UN Security Council, the issue was whether there would be a cessation of the military conflict or not. India did not accept the plebiscite,\u201d he said intervening in the minister\u2019s reply.
\u201cThe UN Observers\u2019 Office was never given that sanctity. India conducted elections. There were elected governments in the state of Jammu & Kashmir.
\u201c\u2018Not only that, we fought wars and we made it very clear repeatedly, and this has been India\u2019s consistent position, prior to 2014, that Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh are an integral part of the sovereign State of India,\u201d Sharma added.
Sitharaman criticised the Congress for questioning the removal of Article 370 and quoted Prime Minister Nehru\u2019s reply in Parliament in 1963 that \u201cArticle 370 is part of a certain transitional provisional arrangement. It is not a permanent part of the Constitution\u201d.
\u201cFor 70 years that transitional arrangement remained and when we removed it, you should have gone by what Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru had said in 1963 and supported it,\u201d she told Congress members.
Stressing that from Jan Sangh days their manifestos have spoken about the abrogation of Article 370, Sitharaman said, \u201cIt was a promise given to the people of the country and we have fulfilled it.\u201d The minister also rebutted the Opposition\u2019s charge that the BJP too shared the responsibility for the failure to check the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990 as it was supporting the then V P Singh-led government at the Centre.
She pointed out that terror killings were being carried out in Kashmir before 1990 when the National Conference was in power in J-K in alliance with the Congress and recalled the then governor Jagmohan\u2019s warning about dark clouds of terror overpowering the Valley.
She listed \u201cseven major events\u201d or killings of Hindus by terrorists in 1989 along with the related FIR numbers.
During the discussion, the Congress party had targeted the BJP, saying it was supporting the V P Singh-led government at the Centre in 1990 when Kashmiri Pandits were forced to leave the Valley after they were targeted by terrorists.
\u201cI just want to put the facts on record. The National Conference government with the support of the Indian National Congress was in power in J&K from November 1986 to January 18, 1990.
\u201cAnd Governor Jagmohan reached J&K (on January 20, 1990) after the resignation of the then Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah\u2026.20th January 1990 is when the Governor eaches Srinagar,\u201d the minister said.
\u201c\u2026whatever happened in 1990, we all know we listed out and we are all seeing it also.
\u201cBut what happened in 1989 when this (Farooq Abdullah) government was still in place, November 1986 onwards till 18 January 1990. I will take just the example of 1989 when that government of National Conference and Indian National Congress was still there, \u201d Sitharaman said.
The Finance Minister also told the opposition that Governor Jagmohan (in his first tenure) in July 1989 had warned the then state government regarding the danger of terrorism.
\u201cIs it not true that even Jagmohan Ji, in his first phase of being Governor when he was asked to leave in July 1989, didn\u2019t he warn authorities at that time itself that the dark cloud of terrorists are really overpowering J&K, and necessary steps have to be taken by the state government,\u201d the minister said.
While she was referring to the killings of 1989, certain opposition members asked her to focus her reply on the Budget.
To this, Sitharaman said even the speeches of opposition members were focused on \u2018Kashmir Files\u2019 (movie) and not on the Budget, therefore, she has every right to reply on all issues.
The minister also told the House that since the abrogation of Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir, terror activities have significantly declined, and development works are happening in the Union Territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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