‘Nehru’s fault…’: Nirmala lashes Cong for internationalising Kashmir issue

• Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tore into the Congress and India's first Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru for internationalising the Kashmir issue. Speaking in the Rajya Sabha, Nirmala Sitharaman said,” It is (the Kashmir issue) essentially an India-related issue. The Congress took this issue to the UN. Who took it? Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, our first Prime Minister, took the issue to the UN. Why? Because Britishers might have made some suggestion to him that this issue wouldn’t improve otherwise, and PM Nehru took it to the UN.” Referring to Pakistan, the finance minister stated, “Till today, our neighbours are misusing it (PM Nehru taking the Kashmir issue to the UN).” Watch how she lashed the Congress in this video.