Militancy surviving its last lap in Kashmir, says Union Minister

Union minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said that militancy in Jammu and Kashmir was ‘in its last phase. He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had set a target to wipe it out from the country in the next five years.

“The prime minister has set a target to make India free from terrorism, corruption, casteism, imperialism and poverty.Despite getting freedom (in 1947), we are not fully free from these evils,” Singh said while talking to reporters here on the sidelines of an event.

He added that just as the period between 1942, when the Quit India movement was launched by Mahatma Gandhi, and 1947, when India got freedom, witnessed important developments, the five years of the Modi government would free India from “terrorism”, corruption and poverty.

Singh said today’s India belonged to the youth and the task of “cleaning the mess” would be completed by them.

On the issue of Article 35A, which allows the J&K government to define the “permanent residents” of the state, who are entitled to certain benefits, he said, “People who are out of power are trying to make it an issue.” “They want to create something out of nothing. They want make it complicated,” he said.

 

 

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