NEW DELHI – BJP has murdered the Indian Constitution today, claims leaderof opposition in Indian Upper House over the issue of Occupied Kashmir.
Ghulam Nabi Azad, a senior Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in theRajya Sabha — the upper house of India’s parliament — in his speech on thefloor said: “We [Congress] stand by the Constitution of India. We will doanything to protect the constitution.”[image: Senior Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the Rajya SabhaGhulam Nabi Azad speaks on the floor of India’s upper house. — Photocourtesy India Today]
“But today, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has murdered the constitution.It has murdered democracy,” he stated.
In a conversation with reporterslink,Azad said: “These people (the BJP) have come to power lately. They do notknow, have not considered the strategic aspects […] to play around withborder state, its people, it is being a traitor to the country.”
“[We] never imagined that the NDA government can go this far [and] wipe outthe existence of Jammu and Kashmir state.”
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Vaiko, the chief of Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam party and amember of Rajya Sabha, said the government had “played with the sentimentsof the people of Kashmir” and termed the order as the “murder of democracy”.
“You have played with the sentiments of people of Kashmir. When additionalarmy personnel were deployed there, I was worried. Kashmir should notbecome Kosovo, East Timor and South Sudan. I am opposing this bill [Article370]. This is a day of shame, shame, shame […] this is murder ofdemocracy,” he was reportedlinkassaying.
Rajya Sabha member KC Tyagi, leader of Janata Dal (United) — which is anally of the National Democratic Alliance — said that his party did notsupport the repealing of Article 370.
