After Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hit back at Union Home Minister Amit Shah for laying the blame for decades of instability in Jammu and Kashmir on his great grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, Union Minister for Sports and Information and Broadcasting, Anurag Thakur, tore into the grand old party and the country’s first prime minister saying that he couldn’t handle the responsibility of the erstwhile state.
The Union minister said, “History will never forgive former PM Jawaharlal Nehru and the Congress. The nation’s history holds witness to the wounds inflicted by the Congress on the country and its people for political benefits.”
Thakur said it was Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who, as the country’s first Home Minister, united 553 princely states and laid the foundation for building a strong country. “Under PM Jawaharlal Nehru, India lost 45,000 soldiers and people in Jammu and Kashmir.
Articles 370 and 35A existed like deep wounds on the country. I wish to ask Rahul Gandhi who he holds responsible for the death of 45,000 people. China captured over 40,000 sq km of our land during the 1962 war. More than 3000 soldiers lost their lives. Who was responsible for that” the Union minister questioned.
