The BJP targeted the opposition Congress and junked the human rights argument from certain quarters against the government’s “muscular policy” in Kashmir. While Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad targeted the Congress over remarks of party leaders on Kashmir, senior minister Arun Jaitley defended the government’s policy in Kashmir, suggesting it was to “save the Human Rights of every Indian – be it a tribal or a Kashmiri” from terrorists. The BJP leader went on to virtually suggest that rights champions cautioning against the muscular policy were the “over-ground face of the underground”. “These human right organisations are an over-ground face of the underground.

The BJP targeted the opposition Congress and junked the human rights argument from certain quarters against the government’s “muscular policy” in Kashmir. While Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad targeted the Congress over remarks of party leaders on Kashmir, senior minister Arun Jaitley defended the government’s policy in Kashmir, suggesting it was to “save the Human Rights of every Indian – be it a tribal or a Kashmiri” from terrorists. The BJP leader went on to virtually suggest that rights champions cautioning against the muscular policy were the “over-ground face of the underground”. “These human right organisations are an over-ground face of the underground.