Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Jammu and Kashmir on April 24, confirmed BJP’s general secretary (organisation) Ashok Koul .
It will be PM Modi’s first visit to the Valley since the abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union Territories in 2019.
Koul also confirmed that efforts are being made for a meeting between the prime minister and representatives of the Kashmiri Pandit community so that they can raise their concerns with him.
Earlier today, BJP’s national general secretary Tarun Chugh asserted that the Modi government has transformed Jammu and Kashmir from a “terrorism capital” to a “tourism capital”.
He played down the recent surge in terrorist attacks in the Valley and said the BJP was able to lower the terrorism and also the age of a terrorist with its clear vision that anyone taking up arms and attacking any citizen has dug his own grave.
“The BJP is pledge-bound to wipe out terrorism and ensure equitable development of both regions of Jammu and Kashmir. This is our dream and commitment and we will continue our efforts till we achieve this,” Chugh told media.
In an apparent reference to the National Conference and the PDP, he said, “They always tried to pitch Kashmir against Jammu and talk about friendship with China and Pakistan to mislead the public the poisonous ideology is still alive because that is in their DNA.”
However, Chugh said they will not succeed this time when there is a Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre which believes in ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas and Sabka Vishwas’.
“The removal of Article 370 (in 2019) opened the doors of justice to those who have been deprived by the successive governments,” the BJP leader said.
