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Priyanka has lowered political discourse: Jaitley

New Delhi: Attacking Priyanka Gandhi for her remarks comparing the BJP leaders to “panic-stricken rats”, Arun Jaitley today said she has “lowered the political discourse” with her language and the Vadra family needs to be

“The single greatest failure of secularism in India is within Farooq Sahib's own state of Kashmir.

If India has witnessed an ethnic cleansing by having one community of the State, namely, the Kashmiri Pandits ejected out of the State, it has only happened in Kashmir,” he said.  

The BJP leader said he was glad that Abdullah says that Kashmir will not accept communal politics.

“But will Kashmir offer the red carpet back for the resettlement of the Kashmiri Pandits,” he asked.

Jaitley said nobody needs to jump into the sea if Narendra Modi becomes the Prime Minister of India “but if Farooq Sahib and his party are silent spectators, when the Kashmiri Pandits cannot go back home he should, as a gesture of repentance, at least take a dip in the Dal Lake.”