BJP national general secretary Tarun Chugh took a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi and said that the siblings could enjoy snowfall in Kashmir only because of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s zero-tolerance policy towards terrorism.
Rahul Gandhi on Monday shared on social media videos of him having a snowball fight with his sister, Priyanka Gandhi at a Bharat Jodo Yatra campsite in Kashmir.
Modi ji’s zero tolerance for terrorism has made it possible for Rahul and his sister Priyanka to enjoy the snowfall in the valley,” Chugh said.
He asked why it took 70 years for the Congress and its leaders like Rahul Gandhi to hoist Trianga at Lal Chowk. “Rahul should be thankful to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi led BJP government that he could enter J&K without permit and hoist Tiranga at Lal Chowk without any issue,” he said, PTI reported.
Congress’ Kanyakumari-to-Kashmir foot-march, a mass contact initiative of the party that began in Kanyakumari on September 7, concluded on Monday. The 4,080-km walkathon, which started from Tamil Nadu’s Kanyakumari, traversed 75 districts of 12 states and two Union territories.
The yatra culminated with an event at the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) headquarters in the Lal Chowk area in Kashmir and a mega rally at the stadium.
Addressing the rally, Gandhi said that he undertook the Bharat Jodo Yatra not for himself or the Congress but for people.
He also said that no BJP top brass would ever undertake a walkathon like the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Jammu and Kashmir as they are scared.
“I can guarantee you that no BJP leader can walk like this in Jammu and Kashmir. They will not do it, not because they won’t be allowed by the people of J-K, but because they are scared,” Gandhi said.
The Congress leader also said that was warned against holding the march in the Valley but he continued his march as he is not afraid.
“When I was walking, the security people told me I can walk anywhere in India, even in Jammu, but the last four days in Kashmir, ‘you should drive in a car’. A few days before I reached Kashmir, the administration told me, perhaps to scare me, that if I walk, then a grenade can be lobbed upon me,” he said.
“I thought over it and then decided that I am walking to my home and with my people. I thought, why not give those who hate me a chance to change the colour of my white shirt, let them make it red…What happened was what I had thought. The people of Jammu and Kashmir did not throw hand grenades, they opened their hearts and gave me love, embraced me. Children and elderly welcomed me with their love and tears,” he said.
