Advani: Govt will give into secessionists

A day before the all-party meet to be held on Kashmir, BJP leader L.K. Advani tore into the central and state government for “capitulating” before secessionists while addressing the party’s central and state spokespersons.

A day before the all-party meet to be held on Kashmir, BJP leader L.K. Advani tore into the central and state government for “capitulating” before secessionists while addressing the party’s central and state spokespersons.

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He told the delegates that in the near future Kashmir was likely to be the main issue of mass agitation for the party.

“Each passing day strengthens our apprehension that the UPA government is about to capitulate before Pakistan-supported secessionists,” Advani told the 116 delegates. “Instead of giving a fitting reply to the secessionists, the government has been demonising the security forces. There is continuing talk of diluting the AFSPA, and withdrawal of the forces.

This is nothing but a surrender before Islamabad’s strategy of breaking India’s post-1947 unity.”

“There is talk of granting “maximum autonomy” to Kashmir. Decoded, it means giving J&K its pre-1953 status. Far from repealing Article 370, the UPA government looks all set to repeal years and decades of our collective gains in Kashmir...”

Advani spared neither the Centre nor the Omar Abdullah government: “There is no government worth the name in J&K. It has completely collapsed...”