Kashmir Now ‘Witnessing Peace, Investment & Influx Of Tourists’: Amit Shah Lauds PM Modi

Delivering his keynote address during the HT Leadership Summit here, Shah lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah. (File Pic)

New Delhi: Asserting Kashmir is now witnessing peace, good business investment and influx of tourists, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said the region “slowly is getting back to normal to stand in unity with the country” post Article 370 abrogation.

Delivering his keynote address during the HT Leadership Summit here, Shah lauded Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019.

The Union Home Minister said no one believed that Article 370 and 35A can be repealed, but Prime Minister Modi did it.

“I can say that there is peace now in Kashmir, investment is coming and tourists are flocking,” PTI quoted Shah as saying.

The Home Minister also used the occasion to take a shot at Pakistan and said India has given a befitting reply to the cross-border terrorism perpetrated by Islamabad “hitting it in its house” through surgical strikes.

Shah said Prime Minister Modi-led government through its armed surgical strikes into Pakistan made it clear that breaching the Indian borders was not that easy.

“We want peace with everyone... the security of our borders is our top priority and we have given a definite and loud message in this context,” he said.

Stating this feat was till now only known to be done by Israel and the US, he said India too is in that list and now has a “different acceptance in the world” due to this.

Shah also spoke about the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Home Minister said Prime Minister Modi ensured an optimum utilisation of resources to efficaciously fight oxygen shortage in the country during the Covid second wave.

Asserting the ruling dispensation’s effective policies brought out the economy, hit by the pandemic, in quick time, Shah said the Indian economy is “growing fastest in the world” now.

Taking a jibe at the opposition, the Home Minister said that there was a “policy paralysis” in the country in the last 10 years before Prime Minister Modi-led government came to power.

“We got political stability in 2014 as there was an era of coalition governments for long in the country,” he said, adding the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) was “compromised” and India’s respect in the world had come down.