Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik has hit out at Rahul Gandhi for his remark that sporadic incidents of violence were reported from the region.
Malik said he would send an aircraft for the Congress leader to visit the Kashmir Valley and observe the ground situation.
"I have invited Rahul Gandhi to come here. I will send you a plane, to observe (the situation) and then speak up. You are a responsible person and you should not speak like this," Malik said on Monday.
Rahul Gandhi had made the remark on Saturday (August 10), in the aftermath of the abrogation of Article 370.
"Scrapping of Article 370 and Article 35A was for everyone. There is no communal angle (for scrapping it) in Leh, Kargil, Jammu, Rajouri-Poonch and not here either (Kashmir valley). There is no communal angle to it," Malik further said.
Malik said the issue was being fanned by some people.
"Foreign press has made an attempt and we have warned them. All hospitals are open for you and if even a single person has been hit by a bullet, prove it. But only four people were hit by pellets in legs when there was violence and there were no serious injuries to anyone," he said.
Replying to a question about allegations that Kashmir valley has been turned into a "concentration camp", the Governor said people don't know the meaning of a concentration camp.
"I know what it is. I have gone to jail 30 times. Even then, I will not term it as a concentration camp. They (Congress) imprisoned people for one-and-half-years during Emergency, but nobody termed them concentration camps. Is preventative arrest (equal to) a concentration camp?" he said.
(with inputs from PTI)
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