‘The Two Families Would Grab Power, If Statehood Is Restored'
Kashmir Life|March 21, 2021
BJP president for Jammu and Kashmir, Ravinder Raina insists that it is important that Jammu and Kashmir should remain a UT for some more time. If the statehood is restored, he told Yawar Hussain, ‘these same old people’ would come back to power and form governments and scrap all the good new laws.
Yawar Hussain
‘The Two Families Would Grab Power, If Statehood Is Restored'

KASHMIR LIFE (KL): BJP has been talking about a Naya Kashmir but now common people in Srinagar are frisked on roads. Is this the Naya Kashmir?

RAVINDER RAINA (RR): That frisking is also for the betterment of common people only. It is for the security concerns of people. The enemy is lurching for the moment. Didn’t you see recently that RDX was recovered here in Jammu city as well?

KL: Was there frisking of common people in Jammu also?

RR: We caught a couple of militants and there were security checkpoints set up across the city.

KL: But isn’t there a difference between checkpoints and frisking of civilians on roads?

RR: I told you that frisking is for the common people’s benefit. There might be someone among the crowd who might want to carry out an attack in a bus or some other place. For safeguarding innocent people such measures are necessary sometimes.

KL: Does that mean the situation in Kashmir isn’t alright?

RR: Situation isn’t bad but may god save us from Pakistan. We can’t trust them.

KL: Aren’t such scenes of frisking of civilians on roads reminiscent of the Kashmir situation in the 1990s?

RR: No, that was a storm. I have seen that. This can’t be compared with that.

KL: If Pakistan isn’t as trustworthy as you said, then how did a sudden ceasefire happen?

RR: The Director-General of Military Operations of two countries deliberated and this happened. Such ceasefires have happened in the past as well and I hope this time the Pakistani army and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) do act in a sincere manner.

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