Congress leader Kanhaiya Kumar said on Sunday that there is silence in Jammu & Kashmir and real peace will be established once the Congress party comes to power in the Union territory.
Kanhaiya said equating silence with peace does not mean the actual situation on the ground is peaceful.
He said, “There is a difference between silence and peace. There is silence here. We have to restore real peace in J&K.”
Kanhaiya Kumar was here in Anantnag to campaign for the All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary, Ghulam Ahmad Mir, who is vying for the Dooru assembly segment.
He added that there is “immense anger and frustration against the oppression” that people of this place (J&K) have been subjected to over the last 10 years.
While criticising the centre’s policies pursued in the last decade, he said, “Our understanding is that this time, the voting percentage in Kashmir will be the highest. This voting will be against oppression, unemployment, the injustices done to the people of Jammu and Kashmir, and to get back their right to statehood,” he said.
He went on to say that the ruling party is harbouring “ill intentions." He accused the BJP of propping up the independent candidates in the upcoming elections.
Additionally, he said that “those who contest the polls as independents are slaves of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.”
He added, “This election in Jammu and Kashmir is a fight between two powers; on the one hand, there are those who spread hatred, and on the other hand, there are those who spread love and fight for the rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.”
Kumar said the election is a battle between two ideologies, with the National Conference-Congress coalition on one hand and the alliance of all others, “which is essentially the BJP’s alliance," on the other.
This fight is between two opposing ideologies of “love and hatred and between justice and injustice. It is a fight to give back the people of Jammu and Kashmir their rights, which were snatched from them. People here understand that there is a need to prevent the division of votes to stop the BJP,” he said.
The polls in Jammu and Kashmir will be held in three phases on September 18, September 25, and October 1, and the counting of votes will be taken up on October 8.
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