Amit Shah reiterates jibe targeting Jawaharlal Nehru over PoK: 'Hum dil bada nahi kar sakte'

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Jawaharlal Nehru over the Jammu and Kashmir issue. Amit Shah reiterated his accusations that it was because of the ‘Nehruvian blunders’ that Pakistan could ‘illegally’ occupy of a portion of Kashmir, known as Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), or Azad Kashmir. Amit Shah was speaking in the Rajya Sabha during a discussion on the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 and Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023.

"Jahan tak nazariye ka sawaal hai, desh ki ek bhi inch zameen ka sawaal hai, humara nazariya tung rahega, hum dil bada nahi kar sakte. No one has the right to give away a section of our land to show off their big heart," Amit Shah said. Amit Shah also gave a reference to Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw and said that it was due to Sardar Patel's intervention that the Indian Army was sent when Kashmir was being invaded by the Pakistanis.

"I want to give a reference to Sam Manekshaw. He said at one place that when the Pakistanis were attacking Kashmir, then he was busy in discussions (don't want to name the person). Sam Manekshaw was present at a meeting in which Sardar Patel told Nehru, "Do you want Kashmir or not?" Then the decision to send the army was taken.

If there was no ceasefire at an appropriate time, PoK would not have been there. Why was the matter taken to the UN?" Shah said. The Home Minister also quoted Jawaharlal Nehru's one of quotes in which he "accepted his mistake" of taking the Kashmir issue to the United Nations, and said, "After the experience of United Nations, I have come to the conclusions that no satisfactory results can be expected from there.