BJP Working President J P Nadda Nadda on Sunday hit out at the Congress for not supporting abrogation of Article 370, alleging that the party always indulged in vote bank politics though they knew the Article was not in the national interest.
"Modi ji has realized one nation, one legislation, one "nishan" (symbol)...But why does the Congress oppose it? the party says it (Article 370) was temporary.
If 370 was so good, why you did not make it permanent? You had more than 400 MPs at one time, why did you not make it permanent?" he asked.
Because you knew deep within that Article 370 was not in the national interest. You indulged in vote bank politics... vote is above the country for you...." he said, addressing a BJP public meeting here.
Nadda said that after partition, people who came to cities like Hyderabad from Pakistan became leaders, but those who made Jammu and Kashmir their home could not become even a councillor.
Now with the abolition of Article 370, there would be Scheduled Caste and tribal seats,he said
Nadda said the country's first home minister Sardar Patel, had united more than 500 princely states, "leaving one (Kashmir) for Jawaharlal Nehru, which got into problems."
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