Subhechcha Ganguly 
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday ruled out any discussion with Pakistan while going all-out to target the “three families that governed Kashmir for seventy years” in his first public speech in the Valley since Article 370, which conferred special status to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), was repealed. As the threat has cost 42,000 lives in J and K since the 1990s, Shah questioned whether terrorism has ever helped anyone while speaking at a rally here.
He further attributed the claimed underdevelopment of Jammu and Kashmir on the families of the Abdullahs (National Conference), Muftis (PDP), and Nehru-Gandhi (Congress), who dominated the formerly independent state for the majority of the period following the country’s independence in 1947.
“Farooq Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti constructed four medical colleges. Since 2014, nine have been erected. Since 2014, we have constructed a thousand residences. In the past three years, we have made sure that every village in Kashmir (including those in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir) has access to power, according to Amit Shah.
The Pahari community would soon receive reservations in education and employment as a Scheduled Tribe, according to Home Minister Amit Shah’s declaration made in Rajouri the day before (ST). Amit Shah claimed in Baraullah that Article 370 prevented reservations from being made in the past.Regarding elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the Union minister stated that they will be held in total openness as soon as the task of producing the voters’ list was finished.
