BJP’s Ashok Kaul condemns assault on minor Kashmiri shawl seller in Uttarakhand

STC NEWS DESK
SRINAGAR, JANUARY 30 (STC): Assault on a minor Kashmiri shawl seller in Uttarakhand has been highly condemned by Ashok Kaul, Ladakh Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) State General Secretary (Org.), Jammu Kashmir.
In a statement issued today, Koul called it as “unfortunate and wrong”, asserting that every citizen has the right to travel and do business anywhere in the country.

The BJP senior leader told a local news agency, KNS, that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah have already condemned the incident and the BJP party too denounces it unequivocally.
“Our country is one and such incidents should not happen,” Koul said in his reaction to the incident.
He said Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah had also spoken to his Uttarakhand counterpart and the BJP too has taken up the matter with its state unit there.
Meanwhile Ashok Koul has also reacted to the issue of separate statehood for Jammu. He ruled out any such proposal, saying the party considers Jammu and Kashmir as one entity.
“There is no such proposal. This has been said by one or two individuals only. Our national general secretary has already issued a statement making it clear that Jammu and Kashmir is one. We will not allow it to be divided,” he said.
(Straight Talk Communications)