Modi mismanaged Jammu & Kashmir : Manmohan

NEW DELHI : Launching an all-out attack on the Narendra Modi Government, Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today accused it of having "mismanaged" the dispute in Jammu and Kashmir and said the government's talk of fighting two and a half wars was yet another hollow promise .

“We must recognise that the Modi government has mismanaged the Jammu and Kashmir problem as never before," he said.

He said the two wings of the government in the state-BJP and PDP- were working against each other and the atmosphere was deteriorating day in and day out.

“That is obvious from the fact that our borders are not secure, whether it is cross-border terrorism or internal terrorism, internal insurgency. There are today issues which are a source of great worry to all our citizens," he said.

The Modi government, he said, possibly feels that these issues will get sorted out on their own.
"That's not going to happen, he added.

Noting that Jammu and Kashmir was an integral part of India, he said the country needed to recognise the state's special problems and we must deal with those problems with all seriousness.