Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah on Saturday said the party had kept all options open in Jammu and Kashmir, which has witnessed a fractured verdict in recent Assembly polls.
“Soon we will be able to find a solution,” Mr. Shah, who was here to review the progress of the party’s ongoing membership drive, told journalists.
On the reported remarks of National Conference leader Omar Abdullah that his party was not inclined to join hands with the BJP, Mr. Shah said: “Do you think that Mr. Abdullah will tell you all the truth?”
Replying to queries on the controversy over the ghar vapsi (reconversion) programme by some of the Sangh Parivar affiliated groups, he said that the BJP had nothing to do with it. “The BJP is against any forceful conversion,” he said and remarked “I will appeal to the so-called secular forces who are opposing the ghar vapsi to join hands with us to bring in legislation to prevent forced conversions instead of trying to stop it merely through media discussions.”
Mr. Shah, who was discharged a few days ago by a special CBI court in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati fake encounter cases, denied allegations that it affected the credibility of the CBI. “I was discharged in the case not by the government, but by the court,” he asserted.
He said that in its seven-month rule the NDA government had made a “good beginning” and prepared a concrete roadmap for the development of the country.
Defending the NITI Ayog, he said it would work as a new “Team India” with all the Chief Ministers as members on the concept of co-operative federalism.
