Amit Shah claims decisive domination over terror

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 7

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said the J&K administration had established a decisive domination over terrorism under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Unveiling the Statue of Peace of Swamy Ramanujacharya in Srinagar through videoconferencing from here, Shah said the UT, under the leadership of Lieutenant-Governor Manoj Sinha, was on the path of peace and development.

600-kg statue of South Indian reformer

• The 600-kg statue made of white granite shows social reformer Ramanujacharya
• Sitting with his hands folded.
• Shah says the philosopher worked mostly in South India but visited Kashmir to procure an important manuscript.

He said the administration delivered development to the people of Kashmir without any discrimination. “For a long time, the nation had a hope that Jammu and Kashmir would be irreversibly integrated with the nation by removal of Article 370 and Article 35A. That hope was fulfilled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. On August 5, 2019, a new era was established in Kashmir,” he noted.

The Home Minister said he was feeling peace that the Surya (Sun) temple in Srinagar had been restored and renovated. “I believe that the Statue of Peace will bring the blessings and teachings of Ramanujacharya to the people of all religions in Kashmir and take them on the path of peace and development,” he added.

Throwing light on the life and teachings of the philosopher, Shah said he had worked mostly in South India but had visited Kashmir to procure an important manuscript called Bodhayana Vritti, a treatise on the Brahma Sutras, as the only copy of this manuscript was in the royal library of Kashmir.

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