NEW DELHI: Senior BJP leaders seized upon veteran Congress functionary Sushil Kumar Shinde‘s comment that he was trembling with concern whereas visiting Lal Chowk in Srinagar as residence minister below UPA-2.
Union minister Piyush Goyal and former I&B minister Anurag Thakur cited Shinde’s comment on the launch of his memoirs on Monday as symbolising the concern and insecurity in J&Ok below Congress regimes, and emphasised the turnaround after PM Narendra Modi took over in 2014.
“Throughout Congress rule, even the house minister was afraid of going to Kashmir,” Goyal wrote on X. “However now, below the management of PM Modi , the safety is so robust that even opposition leaders play with snow in Kashmir, with none concern,” he added in a reference to Congress’s Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi tossing snowballs at one another.
Thakur was equally scathing: “The confession from Shinde saheb is an admission of the reign of terror that jihadis had unleashed in J&Ok. Take a look at the distinction after PM Modi fashioned govt in Delhi. You possibly can go to the identical Lal Chowk with none concern,” Thakur added.
Union minister Piyush Goyal and former I&B minister Anurag Thakur cited Shinde’s comment on the launch of his memoirs on Monday as symbolising the concern and insecurity in J&Ok below Congress regimes, and emphasised the turnaround after PM Narendra Modi took over in 2014.
“Throughout Congress rule, even the house minister was afraid of going to Kashmir,” Goyal wrote on X. “However now, below the management of PM Modi , the safety is so robust that even opposition leaders play with snow in Kashmir, with none concern,” he added in a reference to Congress’s Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi tossing snowballs at one another.
Thakur was equally scathing: “The confession from Shinde saheb is an admission of the reign of terror that jihadis had unleashed in J&Ok. Take a look at the distinction after PM Modi fashioned govt in Delhi. You possibly can go to the identical Lal Chowk with none concern,” Thakur added.
