{"id":107057,"date":"2019-08-12T11:03:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T10:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/2019\/08\/12\/bjp-slams-chidambarams-comment-on-kashmir\/"},"modified":"2019-08-12T11:08:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T10:08:07","slug":"bjp-slams-chidambarams-comment-on-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npnews24.com\/bjp-slams-chidambarams-comment-on-kashmir\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP slams Chidambaram’s comment on Kashmir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS)<\/strong> The BJP on Monday termed as “unfortunate” the comments of senior Congress leader P. Chidambaram who is reported to have said that had Kashmir been a Hindu majority state, the BJP wouldn’t have revoked Article 370.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporters here, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said, “The statement made by him (Chidambaram) is irresponsible and it is made to provoke people.”<\/p>\n<p>He said a number of people have been killed in Kashmir in the last 70 years.<\/p>\n<p>Firing salvos at the Congress leader, Prasad said, “Is it not true that Faiyaz Khan was kidnapped and killed, is it not true that Aurangzeb who was a brave soldier was killed by terrorists? What is Chidambaram talking about?”<\/p>\n<p>He was referring to Lt Ummer Fayaz, a young Army officer from Kashmir, who was kidnapped and killed by militants when he had gone to attend a wedding in Shopian district in 2017, and to the killing of Rifleman Aurangzeb, who was abducted and killed by terrorists in Pulwama in 2018 when he was home on leave.<\/p>\n<p>Prasad said: “This step (to revoke Article 370) is taken for the benefit of all Kashmiris because under the name of Article 370, Muslims of Kashmir were also suffering and facing injustice.”<\/p>\n<p>The BJP leader also said that the decision to abrogate Article 370 was in favour of the development of people of Jammu and Kashmir and people of India.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, addressing an event in Chennai, Chidambaram reportedly said that the BJP government revoked Article 370 as it was a Muslim majority state, and “had there been a Hindu majority in Kashmir, BJP wouldn’t have touched it (Article 370).”<\/p>\n<p>–IANS<br \/>\naks\/rn\/prs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Aug 12 (IANS) The BJP on Monday termed as “unfortunate” the comments of senior Congress leader P. 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