Need to know what has alienated Kashmiri youth: Sonia Gandhi
December 19th, 2010 - 3:58 pm ICT by ANI
Burari (New Delhi), Dec 19 (ANI): Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Sunday said the country needed to find an answer to what has caused alienation among the youth in the Kashmir Valley.
Addressing the party’s 83rd plenary session at Burari in northwest Delhi, Gandhi said: “We have to find an answer in Jammu and Kashmir why an entire generation that has witnessed nothing but violence is feeling isolated. We should look at it.”
Gandhi said the appointment of three interlocutors for the troubled state battling an unending separatist campaign was a step toward this process.
“We have appointed interlocutors and we want to do this,” she added.
She further said that we should understand the reason behind violence in the Valley.
‘There are unresolved political and economic issues’ that are being exploited by external forces,” she added.
Citing the recent bomb blast in Varanasi, Gandhi said this has reminded one and all that vigil cannot be relaxed.
“Let there be absolutely no doubt about our determination to confront those elements and organisations who operate from across the border to spread terror, to destroy our social fabric and weaken us economically,” she added. (ANI)
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