USAID row: Congress slams BJP, demands white paper
The grand old party also said that the “white paper” should not only focus on USAID funding, but all such agencies which fund both Governments, individuals and all other entities under Indian law.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Friday that he is a Kashmiri Pandit and feels at home whenever he visits Jammu and Kashmir.
Rahul Gandhi is on a two-day visit to Jammu. He visited the Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine in the Reasi district on Wednesday.
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“My family is a Kashmiri Pandit family. A delegation of Kashmiri Pandits met me today.
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“They said the BJP has done nothing for them while the Congress had implemented many welfare schemes for them. I promise my Kashmiri Pandit brothers that I will do something for them.
“J&K has a special place in my heart, but I am pained also. There is brotherhood in J&K, but the BJP and the RSS are trying to break the bond of that brotherhood.”
He said the BJP had snatched away the statehood from the people of J&K which should be restored.
He raised his hand and said, “Hand means ‘Daro Mat’. You can see a hand in pictures of Lord Shiva and Wahe Guru.”
He said after J&K, he would also be visiting Ladakh.
He paid obeisance at the Mata Vaishno Devi shrine where he was accompanied by J&K Congress president G.A.Mir and many party workers and supporters during his 13-kilometre long trek to the shrine.
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