Deal with Kashmir situation with iron hand: BJP to state govt

Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir unit of BJP today called upon the state government to deal with the present situation in the Kashmir Valley decisively and with an “iron hand.”

State BJP spokesperson Virender Gupta said there is no option for the government other than meeting the challenge posed by the separatists and militants “supported by Pakistan” decisively and with an iron hand otherwise the situation will deterioratefurther and it may not be possible to bring back normalcy in the Valley.

“At present the morale of the state police, CRPF and other security forces have gone down because of the recent happenings where lot of restrictions have been imposed on them,” Gupta said.

He said that what is happening in PoK including Gilgit and Baltistan should be eye opener for the misguided youth and they should ponder upon the atrocities committed on the people there by Pakistani government.

The misguided youth should learn lesson from the treatment being meted to the people of Sindh, Balochistan and North Frontier Province who are suffering the worst kind of discrimination and facing atrocities under the Punjabi dominated Pakistan rulers and struggling to get freedom from Pakistan, he said.

PTI