06 Aug 2019  |   06:17am IST

South BJP hails Centre’s move to repeal Article 370, 35A

Team Herald

MARGAO: Celebrating the historic decision of the Union Government to repeal Article 370 and 35 A giving reservation to Jammu & Kashmir, the South Goa Bharatiya Janata Party and the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) said the workers have demanded that the Pak Occupied Kashmir be taken back by the nation. 

BJP general secretary Damu Naik, South Goa BJP president Sarvanand Bhagat, BJYM president of South Goa Ketan Kurtarkar and others were present at the celebration. 

Damu Naik said, "It is a happy day for us workers. In the history of India, the greatest mistake has been corrected. Home Minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi have to be congratulated for it".  

"The mission we were working for last so many years has been completed. It was to have Kashmir as a part of the country in the true sense and now it is," he said. 

"It is a tribute to Deen Dayal Upadhyaya, Shyamaprasad Mukherjee and others. Due to the wrong policies of Nehru we didn’t have development in Kashmir but now they (J&K) will be in the country’s mainstream," Damu added.

BJYM leader Bhavesh Zambaulikar said, "Our workers have protested with regards to Article 370 in Kashmir and courted arrest many times. It is a tribute to all these sacrifices," he said. 

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