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Nothing wrong with Omar's Kashmir accession
remarks: Krishna
Friday, October 15, 2010 02:49:07 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna Friday said he found
"nothing objectionable" in Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar
Abdullah's remark that the state had acceded to and not merged
with the Union of India.
"I don't think Abdullah has said anything objectionable. It is a
fact that Jammu and Kashmir has acceded to India just like Mysore
did," Krishna said here when asked for his reaction to Omar
Abdullah's the recent remark.
Krishna stressed that like in the case of Jammu and Kashmir, the
Maharaja of Mysore also had signed an accession treaty. "And I am
a citizen of Mysore," he said.
Abdullah had said in the Jammu and Kashmir assembly that the state
had only acceded to and not merged with the Union of India and
could not be compared to Junagarh and Hyderabad, triggering
outrage from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Krishna, however, asserted that Jammu and Kashmir is a "legitimate
part" of India and reiterated India's objections to the Chinese
practice of issuing stapled visas to Indian residents of Jammu and
Kashmir.
The Chinese practice is seen here as a ploy to question India's
sovereignty over Jammu and Kashmir.
Krishna said New Delhi has made it clear to Beijing that it was
not acceptable and that there was need to "be sensitive to each
other's core concerns" to build relations.
"We have conveyed to them (China) that we do not accept the
stapled visas and we are not going to accept these," he said.
"China should keep our sensitivities in mind. That's how
relationships are built, sustained and nurtured," the minister
said.
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