NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leaders seized upon veteran Congress functionary Sushil Kumar Shinde‘s remark that he was trembling with fear while visiting Lal Chowk in Srinagar as home minister under UPA-2.
Union minister Piyush Goyal and former I&B minister Anurag Thakur cited Shinde’s remark at the launch of his memoirs on Monday as symbolising the fear and insecurity in J&K under Congress regimes, and emphasised the turnaround after PM Narendra Modi took over in 2014.
“During Congress rule, even the home minister was afraid of going to Kashmir,” Goyal wrote on X. “But now, under the leadership of PM Modi , the security is so strong that even opposition leaders play with snow in Kashmir, without any fear,” he added in a reference to Congress’s Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi tossing snowballs at each other.
Thakur was equally scathing: “The confession from Shinde saheb is an admission of the reign of terror that jihadis had unleashed in J&K. Look at the contrast after PM Modi formed govt in Delhi. You can visit the same Lal Chowk without any fear,” Thakur added.
Union minister Piyush Goyal and former I&B minister Anurag Thakur cited Shinde’s remark at the launch of his memoirs on Monday as symbolising the fear and insecurity in J&K under Congress regimes, and emphasised the turnaround after PM Narendra Modi took over in 2014.
“During Congress rule, even the home minister was afraid of going to Kashmir,” Goyal wrote on X. “But now, under the leadership of PM Modi , the security is so strong that even opposition leaders play with snow in Kashmir, without any fear,” he added in a reference to Congress’s Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi tossing snowballs at each other.
Thakur was equally scathing: “The confession from Shinde saheb is an admission of the reign of terror that jihadis had unleashed in J&K. Look at the contrast after PM Modi formed govt in Delhi. You can visit the same Lal Chowk without any fear,” Thakur added.