Senior BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in Jammu and Kashmir Sunil Sharma on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on the National Conference (NC) and Congress, holding the two parties responsible for the rise of militancy in the region and for misleading the public for political gain. He added that the demand for the restoration of statehood was to kill innocent Kashmiris.

Addressing a press conference in Srinagar, Sharma said militancy started when the NC and Congress were in power and credited the BJP for bringing stability to the region. He said 7,000 law and order incidents occurred during Omar Abdullah's government. “During our administration, only 18 such incidents took place,” he said. “That is the difference between their politics and our governance.”

He credited the BJP’s

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