‘Art 370 removal integrated J&K fully with India’
Srinagar: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 2019 decision to revoke Article 370, saying that no government in the past seven decades had dared to take such a step.
“For 70 years, no one touched Article 370. In 2019, Modi ji ended it and wiped out terrorism from its roots,” Shah said while addressing multiple rallies across Bihar.
He asserted that the abrogation of Article 370 led to the “complete integration” of Jammu and Kashmir with the rest of India and marked a decisive step in strengthening national security.
Highlighting India’s economic progress, Shah said the Modi government had elevated India from the world’s 11th-largest economy to the 4th-largest, with the goal of becoming the 3rd by 2027. “PM Modi brought India from 11th place to 4th, and by 2027 we will reach 3rd. He has made our country prosperous and secure,” he added.
On the security front, Shah cited major terror attacks such as Uri, Pulwama, and Pahalgam, and said the Modi government responded firmly through surgical strikes, air strikes, and, most recently, Operation Sindoor after the Pahalgam attack. “Previous governments hesitated for political reasons, but Modi took decisive action to destroy terrorist hideouts,” he said.
Turning to Bihar’s electoral process, the Home Minister accused opposition parties of obstructing the ongoing voter list revision and alleged that infiltrators had been added to the rolls. He vowed to identify and remove them if the NDA returned to power. “Tell me, should infiltrators stay on the voter list or not? Re-elect the NDA, and we’ll remove every infiltrator from Bihar,” Shah said.
He also targeted Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, and former PM Manmohan Singh, as well as RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav, accusing them of silence on national security and of defending infiltrators. Shah mocked Rahul Gandhi’s outreach efforts, referring to them as the “Ghuspetiya Bachao Yatra.”
Concluding his address, Shah said the upcoming Bihar Assembly elections would determine whether the state continues on the path of development or returns to “misrule.” He emphasized that Modi’s leadership had bolstered India’s security with the 2016 surgical strikes, 2019 air strikes, and 2025’s Operation Sindoor.
