Issues in Kashmir will be resolved through humanity: BJP

New Delhi: With some parties in Jammu and Kashmir drifting towards it ahead of Lok Sabha polls, BJP today said it will resolve the issues in the strife-torn state through humanity.

"On the external dimensions of the issue, BJP will never allow India's territory to be bargained or compromised. On the internal dimensions, our approach will be guided by Shri Atal Behari Vajpayee's pronouncement that all issues will be resolved within the dimension of 'Insanyiat'," BJP leader Arun Jaitley said.

He was responding to comments of various political groups, including PDP, in Kashmir Valley suggesting that NDA government in the past was more honest in addressing the issues of Jammu & Kashmir rather than UPA government.

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"Most of these groups are ideologically opposed to BJP. Why then should they be more optimistic about the BJP's sincerity on the issues of Jammu & Kashmir?," he said.

Noting that Jammu & Kashmir has been integral to BJP's ideology, he said being a nationalist organisation, BJP believes that there can be no territorial compromise.

He said his visits to the state have convinced him that the sense of discrimination amongst the people of Jammu, Leh and Ladakh have to be addressed.

"Within the Valley, our approach has to be guided by twin considerations of no concession to the separatists and the sense of concern and compassion of the average Kashmiri. Their quality of life has to be improved and the areas where they
feel harassed will have to be addressed.

"In a fight against separatism, the people of Kashmir Valley should be our important allies. Issues of their alienation will have to be addressed without compromising on the basic tenets of our ideology," Jaitley said.

PTI