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No hartal, thousands participating in Bla rally, Amit Shah removing BP cover, halting speech for Azan says it all
Union Home Minister’s J&K visit
10/6/2022 10:51:49 PM
Early Times Report

Jammu, Oct 6: Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, sent many messages during his 3-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir.
He removed his bullet proof shield while addressing a rally in North Kashmir’s Baramulla district. He visited Downtown Srinagar in a first for any Union Home Minister in recent times, and business as usual at Lal Chowk with no strike or hartal.
Removing the bullet proof shield while addressing a public rally in Baramulla was a part of the messaging that things were normal in Kashmir now on the front of terrorism and the and the Home Minister also briefly mingled with the crowd at his public meeting.
What also caught everyone’s attention was that Lal Chowk and other areas of Srinagar were open during the Home Minister’s visit, in a departure from the past when calls for strike were given during such high-profile visits from Delhi and shop shutters were downed. In fact, the entire Kashmir was open during Shah’s visit.
Nearly 40,000 people attended the public rally addressed by Shah in Baramulla. People were standing along and singing national anthem together and the whole atmosphere was filled with slogans of ‘Bharat Mata ki Jai’.
The “New India” envisioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is taking shape to unite everyone and pledging together in this Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav to make Swarnim Bharat. New energy was felt among the youth when Amit Shah gave a clarion call to them to come and make India and Kashmir Great.
Amit Shah paused his speech in Baramulla as soon as heard Azan (call for namaz) from a nearby mosque.
When the Home Minister heard the ‘Azaan’ from the mosque, he asked if anything was going on in the mosque. After confirming with people, he took a brief pause before restarting the speech with permission from the audience.
His gesture attracted huge applause and people cheered for him.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah ruled out holding talks with Pakistan and vowed to wipe out terrorism from Jammu and Kashmir.
Shah said terrorism in J&K has claimed 42,000 lives since the 1990s.
“Those who ruled for 70 years are saying talk to Pakistan. Why should we talk to Pakistan? We will not talk. We will talk to the people of Baramulla, we will talk to the people of Kashmir,” Amit Shah said.
He took stock of the security situation in a meeting held with senior officials in Srinagar.
If BJP ever needed some ammunition to convince the rest of the world about its acceptance in the Kashmir, massive rally in the border district of Baramulla gave it enough artillery to go to town with images and messaging.
Even BJP leaders and organizers of the rally privately admited that though they expected a good gathering, they never expected so many people to turn up despite most of rural Kashmir, especially North Kashmir busy with harvesting.
People turned up in thousands next to the LoC and next to the once separatist hotbed of Sopore, that is enough for the BJP to claim its acceptance in Kashmir.
That the rally went incident free will also be a huge feather in LG Manoj Sinha’s cap who reportedly planned every bit to the minutest detail. Whether these numbers in the rally can convert into votes for BJP remains to be seen, but with the success of the Baramulla rally, PM Modi and Amit Shah will believe that they have finally broken the glass ceiling and the world must take note.
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