Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday warned that promoters of terrorism will meet the fate of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru.
Guru was hanged in Tihar Jail in 2019, a decade after the Supreme Court convicted him in Parliament attack case.
Addressing an election rally in Udhampur, Shah lashed out at the National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah for saying that Afzal Guru should not have been hanged.
“Phir kya, usko biryani khilani thi? (Was I supposed to serve him biryani instead?)" Shah asked.
He attacked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his claim to restore Article 370.
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"I want to make it clear that even Rahul’s future generations won’t be able to bring it back," he said.
He credited the end of holding elections in Jammu and Kashmir under a separate flag before the abrogation of Article 370, to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He blamed Congress, PDP and NC for terrorism in the last four decades.
He said it led to the killing of 40,000 people and also 3,000 days of curfew.
Shah said after Modi took over, stone pelting and bullets have ended.
“The three parties want to revive terrorism in J&K,” he said. But I want to tell Omar Abdullah that whatever be your wish, terrorism will be eradicated from the soil of Kashmir forever.”
He said nobody has the power to revive terrorism in J&K as there is Modi’s government at the Centre.
He said he heard Rahul Gandhi and Omar Abdullah claiming they would restore statehood.
“Let me make it clear that after the abrogation of Article 370, I had promised the restoration of statehood soon after the elections in J&K,’’ he said. “PM Modi too has made it clear that it will be restored.”
He said for the past 75 years, the three families created a situation that led to the closure of cinemas.
He said he wanted to ask Farooq Abdullah where he was when 40,000 people were killed. “You were enjoying your holidays in London,’’ he said. “You can do anything, but the terrorism will never get revived.”
Referring to the development in Udhampur, he said that the good roads there is the outcome of Modi’s rule.
He said that in Lal Chowk in Srinagar, which is now accessible to all, the tri-colour is hoisted and Muharram is observed, along with Ganpati and Janmashtami festivals.