Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 26: Rahul Gandhi does not know the history of Jammu & Kashmir and puts his foot in the mouth every time. His outsider barb against Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha is totally misplaced, misleading, gross distortion and unwarranted, BJP spokesperson Arun Gupta said today.
Rahul’s attempt of branding LG Sinha as an “outsider” in Jammu & Kashmir is highly condemnable, Gupta said. Before Manoj Sinha, Lt Gen S K Sinha, N N Vohra, Jagmohan, General K V Krishna Rao, B K Nehru, L K Jha and Bhagwan Sahai remained Governors after 1967. They were all Indians from different States of this great nation and served their tenures as true Indians.
In May 1967, Janki Nath Wazir for two months and before him Karan Singh occupied the top Constitutional post in J&K, Gupta recalled.
Dr Karan Singh as also Wazir were residents of Jammu & Kashmir but an era ended in 1967 when first Parliamentary elections were held here. Gandhi was born in June 1970 but over three years before that, the era of someone from State becoming its constitutional head had ended in J&K, Gupta explained. At that time, the era which his great grandfather Nehru had started in collusion with National Conference (NC) founder Sheikh Abdullah ended abruptly. The undemocratic method of the Sheikh choosing six MPs of the Lok Sabha and four of the Rajya Sabha ended, Gupta recounted.
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