Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Jawaharlal Nehru made ‘two blunders’ in J&K, says Amit Shah

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Amit Shah on Monday recalled the “blunder" committed in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) by former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, while praising PM Narendra Modi for correcting it during his tenure. Amit Shah said Jawaharlal Nehru made an error when he implemented Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, which was abrogated by PM Modi who also raised an Indian flag in the Union Territory.

Addressing the public rally in Jodhpur as the Lok Sabha elections near, Amit Shah said, "PM Modi has fulfilled all the promises that we made since the foundation of the BJP. Former PM Jawaharlal Nehru committed a blunder by implementing Article 370 in Kashmir.

PM Modi put an end to Article 370 on August 5, 2019, and raised the Indian flag in Kashmir." Amit Shah also blamed Jawaharlal Nehru for the part in Jammu and Kashmir which is currently occupied by Pakistan, saying because of these “two blunders", “Kashmir had to suffer for years". This is not the first time Jawaharlal Nehru's name had been mentioned during the debates on Jammu and Kashmir.

While replying to a debate on the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 and Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 in Lok Sabha, Amit Shah noted that Jawaharlal Nehru made "two blunders"-- declared a ceasefire without winning the entire Kashmir (during India-Pakistan war in 1948) and also took the Kashmir issue to the United Nations. Also Read | Katchatheevu Island row: Jaishankar lashes out at Cong, DMK, says ‘6,184 fishermen, 1,175 vessels detained by Sri Lanka’ "I support the word that was used here -- Nehruvian blunder.

Because of the blunder that was committed during the time of Nehru, Kashmir had to suffer. With responsibility, I want to say that the two blunders that