Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday said that the three families think that no matter in what way they do it, they want to grab the chair of power in Jammu and Kashmir which they consider their birthright. He was referring to traditional parties JKNC and PDP and the national party Congress. Speaking at his first assembly election address in J&K inside the fortified Sher-i-Kashmir stadium in heavily secured Srinagar, Modi greeted his audience in somewhat broken Kashmiri.
“Kasher benin chu meon seytya seytha namashkaar. Kya haal chaal chu,” he said. Modi said that the three families want to deprive Kashmiris of their fundamental rights, and that “it is their agenda from the very start.
” The three families, Modi said, think they shouldn’t be questioned, “but, J&K will not remain in the grab of these families,” said Modi. “They have only given violence to the people of J&K,” he said as he continued his attack against them. The youth of J&K, Modi said, is now challenging dynastic politics.
“It is the same youth that these parties didn’t allow to move forward,” Modi said. Talking about Kashmir’s discomposed past, Modi asked his audience if they remember the times when “schools were put on fire, and those who survived didn’t open for a long time, depriving students of their education,” said the Prime Minister. And the three families were happy to handover stones to the youth of J&K, he said.
“But I won’t let these three families deprive J&K of t.