European Union MPs to visit J&K |
In a development signalling an international outreach by the Narendra Modi government that is snowballing into a major political controversy, at least 27 European Union MPs in India on a private visit plan to visit Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday after they met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday. PM Modi “highlighted the importance of close international cooperation to fight terrorism” to the EU MPs when they called on him. In early August this year, India revoked Article 370 that granted a special status to J&K state. The government had also then announced the bifurcation of J&K into two Union territories. The Congress Party on Monday swiftly questioned the government for allowing a European Union delegation to visit Kashmir while preventing Indian political leaders from going to the state, and claimed it was an insult to India`s Parliament and democracy. BJP MP Subramanian Swamy was quoted as saying: “This is a perversion of our national policy. I urge the government cancel this visit because it is immoral.”
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