There’ll be no compromise on security and integrity of nation, asserts Finance Minister
Terming stone-throwers in the Valley as ‘attackers’, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said such elements were aggressors and not ‘satyagrahis’.
“They are not ‘satyagrahis’, but attackers who have attacked security camps. Pakistan, separatists and religious forces, through a new tactic, have attacked the integrity of India, which is a serious situation. No compromise will be made on security and integrity of India and the country will defeat them,” he said.
If a mob of 10,000 attacked a police post of merely five or 10 men with stones, it was an attack, he said. He was addressing a public gathering at Smailpur in Samba district, the birthplace of Praja Parishad and former Jana Sangh president Pandit Premnath Dogra.
“Since Pakistan never accepted J&K as a part of India, it had no positive agenda for education, poverty alleviation and development. It nurtured its people’s mindset for aggression against India and turned out to be a failed state,” said Jaitley.
“Soon after Partition, invaders from Pakistan attacked Kashmir and took a portion of J&K,” he said. Referring to the Amarnath imbroglio of 2008 and the 2010 unrest, he said Pakistan and separatists took to stone-throwing as an alternative to raise the issue.
Referring to the 1990s, the Finance Minister said Pakistan, after acknowledging that it could not win against India in war, pushed terrorists into Jammu and Kashmir.
“Pakistan tried the new tactic of stone-throwing on security forces and targeting their camps. India slowly learnt its tactic and over the years neutralised a large number on terrorists, which gave a serious setback to Pakistan,” said Jaitley.
Terming the present turmoil as another serious situation, the Finance Minister said the aggression was jointly launched by Pakistan, separatists and religious forces. “No compromise will be made on security and integrity of the state and the government will win,” he asserted.
Jaitley said Pakistan raised the Kashmir issue globally and tried to internationalise it, but in this attempt turned its own state into a terrorism hub, which the world recognised after the 9/11 attack in the US.
Referring to the JNU incident, he said those raising anti-India slogans were motivated by Congress leaders who met them and patted them on the back.
