Responding to the reported spate of resignations by Jammu and Kashmir police personnel and the killing of three of their colleagues, the Congress on Friday said the NDA government was playing with the “crown of India” and treating the people like “guinea pigs” while using the State for its “laboratory politics.”
Addressing a press conference, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi alleged that there had been a marked increase in ceasefire violations, deaths of security personnel, civilian killings and terror incidents in Jammu and Kashmir ever since the BJP came to power at the Centre and an “opportunistic alliance took shape in the State”.
He said the while the UPA had brought the State and the people in the mainstream, the NDA government left them “midstream”. “There is a quantitative and qualitative change. The quantitative change is reflected in any of the four parameters — ceasefire violations, death of security personnel, civilian deaths, terror incidents,” Mr Singhvi said and claimed that 414 security personnel and 256 civilians have lost their lives since May 2014.
Ceasefire violations
“In the case of ceasefire violations, there is a 500% increase,” he added.
Commenting on the NDA government’s Pakistan policy as a 'No Pak policy,' the Congress spokesperson, “It is knee-jerk, it is episodic, it is momentary, it is transient, it depends on the mood of the moment. This government has no moral right to continue. The government is playing with crown, with the pride of India.”