Release of J&K leaders on administration call: Shah
   Date :11-Dec-2019

Release of J and K leader
 
NEW DELHI :
 
ASSERTING that the situation in Jammu and Kashmir is ‘normal’ and not a single death due to police firing was reported after abrogation of Article 370, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday informed the Lok Sabha that jailed political leaders will be released after the Union Territory administration decides on the situation. “As far as the situation in Jammu and Kashmir is concerned, it is completely normal. But, I cannot normalise the situation of Congress. Because, they had said that there will be a bloodbath after abrogation of Article 370 and the Government would not be able to lift curfew from there for years. But, nothing happened,” Shah said while replying to a query raised by Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdury. Shah said that this while responding to a supplementary question by Chowdhury, who mocked at the Government’s explanation on the current situation in Jammu and Kashmir as informed by Shah’s junior G Kishan Reddy (Minister of State for Home).
 
Chowdhary had said: “There is a Ram Rajya in J&K as per them. All political leaders have been detained. Our MPs are not being allowed to visit there, but MPs from outside the country are being allowed to visit there. You (Amit Shah) had promised in this House that everything will be normal in Jammu and Kashmir.” Amid pandemonium created by the Congress, the Minister said 99.5 per cent students participated in the recently concluded exams in Jammu and Kashmir.
 
On Chowdhury’s question that ‘political activity’ will be seen as normalcy, Shah hit back at the leader, saying: “He doesn’t consider normalcy when students participate in exams, over seven lakh OPD patients get health facilities, Section 144 is withdrawn from all police stations, no one gets killed in any police firing and traffic flow is normal”. “He only considers political activity as normalcy. As far as political activity is concerned, over the Panchayat elections took place which was not done so far in their (Congress) regime.” “Later, all Block Development Council elections happened peacefully and over 95 per cent voting took place. Is this not political?” Shah said.
 
“As far as the release of political leaders from jail is concerned, I want to say that we don’t want to keep anyone in jail for a single day. Whenever the administration in Jammu and Kashmir decides, they (politicians) will be released.”