A day before polling for the first phase of Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Congress aggressively raked up the revival of terrorism in Jammu province to corner its arch-rival BJP.
Congress Working Committee (CWC) member Gurdeep Singh Sappal pointed out that terrorism emboldened in Jammu and Kashmir only during the tenure of BJP at the Centre.
Singh, while interacting with media persons at Jammu, recalled that releasing dreaded terrorists in exchange for getting PDP president Mehbooba Mufti’s sister Rubiya Sayeed released was a turning point in encouraging terrorism.
“The then Chief Minister Dr. Farooq Abdullah was against releasing terrorists but the then Central government headed by VP Singh was forced by the BJP to release dreaded terrorists”, Singh recalled.
The Congress leader further said that the infamous Kandahar hijacking incident has further encouraged terrorism in J&K.
“The then Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah was against the trade of five terrorists …