Rahul Gandhi does firefighting.
Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday issued clarification regarding his stance about the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. Gandhi said that Jammu and Kashmir is India's integral matter and no one including Pakistan has any right to infringe upon it. He also said that the violence in Kashmir is due to instigation and support from Pakistan.
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Rahul Gandhi had to give this hurried clarification after social media was abuzz with Pakistan using his words in letter to 18 UN Special Procedures mandate-holders on what Islamabad claims to be human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir.
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Congress party too swung into action and chief spokesperson said: "We've noticed reports citing an alleged petition moved by Pakistani Govt in United Nations on J&K, wherein the name of Rahul Gandhi has been mischievously dragged to justify the pack of lies & deliberate misinformation being spread by Pakistan."
He further said, " Let no one in the world be in doubt that Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh were, are and shall always remain an integral part of India. No amount of diabolical deception by Pakistan shall change this irrevocable truth"
Pak letter to UN quotes Rahul Gandhi
Pakistan's Minister for Human Rights Shireen Mazari wrote a letter where Rahul Gandhi has been mentioned
Here's the line quoting Rahul Gandhi:
These, and other, acts of violence have even been acknowledged by mainstream politicians, such as the leader of Congress party, Mr Rahul Gandhi who has noted "people dying" in Jammu and Kashmir, in light of events "going very wrong there"
It also mentions Ghulam Nabi Azad and Mehbooba Mufti's statements about Jammu and Kashmir. The letter reads: While the violations discussed above represent only a fraction of the total horrifying violations being committed by the State of India against the Kashmir people, they are an apt illustration of the intensity of the conflict and gravity of rights violations currently on-going in the region. Recently, Rahul Gandhi, President of the Congress party, and several other Indian opposition leaders were forcibly returned from Srinagar Airport to New Delhi.This further nullifies claims by the Indian Government that the situation is "normal". In this regard, it is worth mentioning here the statement by senior Congress party leader, Ghulam Nabi Azad: "If the situation is normal, then why is the government restricting us from entering the Valley? On the one hand, the government says that things are normal and on the other, they impose entry restrictions. Why so many contradictions?"