After wrapping up the southern India’s campaign, prime minister Narendra Modi reached the northernmost state of Jammu and Kashmir.

Modi said that the Assembly elections will be held soon in J&K and statehood will be restored so that the people have their elected representatives. 

Addressing a huge election rally in Udhampur, PM Modi vehemently campaigned for the BJP candidates Dr Jitendra Singh and Jugal Kishore Sharma who are fighting the Lok Sabha elections from Kathua-Udhampur and Jammu-Reasi constituencies respectively.

He strongly criticised the Congress, National Conference, Peoples Democratic Party and other such parties saying that these are dynastic parties who have done tremendous damage to J&K in the past.

“I challenge any political party in the country to speak of restoring Article 370. If they do that, the people will not even tolerate seeing their faces”, he said.

He said after the abrogation of 370 the youth of J&K have shown the mirror to these political parties so that their real faces come to light.

“Now these parties have started a new policy. They are going outside J&K and asking different states what benefit the people there get by abrogation of 370. The benefit of the removal of 370 has been that mothers and sisters have got their rights back, Dalits, Gadi Brahmins, Paharis, Valmikis, west Pakistan refugees and others have got their rights that were denied to them for 70 years,” the PM said.

Indian Army in Kashmir

“Mothers of security men would be worried about stone pelting attacks on their sons in Kashmir. Mothers of local children would be worried if they did not hear from their children as they would fear these children might have fallen into the wrong hands. Schools are not burnt now in Kashmir, these are now decorated. There are IIMs, AIIMS, IITs, tunnels, wider roads, and comforts of railway travel,” he said.

Modi also mentioned about the spike in tourism in J&K.

He spoke of the Shahpur-Kandi project and said that for decades the weak Congress government allowed the project to remain an unfulfilled task.

“The waters of Ravi would go to Pakistan and today these waters are irrigating our agricultural fields in Kathua and Samba,” he said.

He also criticised the Congress saying that their leaders did not even accept the invitation for the inauguration of Ram temple in Ayodhya.

He appealed to the voters to ensure a historic third-time victory for both Dr Jitendra Singh and Jugal Kishore Sharma, the BJP candidates for the Kathua-Udhampur and Jammu-Reasi seats.

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