PoK people demanding to be part of India: UP CM

Ambedkar Nagar Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday claimed people from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) are demanding to be part of India and nobody wants to stand with "penniless" Pakistan. "Did anybody think nine years ago that Article 370 would be abrogated. Nobody had thought about it... And you saw that on August 5, 2019, Article 370 was thrown in the garbage of history," Adityanath said.

"Kashmir is functioning as per laws of India, and moving forward with a new stream of development and peace," he said. The chief minister made the remarks while addressing a function here to inaugurate and lay the foundation of various development projects worth Rs 1,212 crore in the presence of Union minister Narendra Singh Tomar.

"Today, there is no violence in Kashmir. Now, there is a demand from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir that they want to be a part of India. Nobody wants to stand with 'daridra' (penniless) Pakistan," Adityanath said. "In 1952, Syama Prasad Mookerjee had said that two 'pradhaans' (heads), two 'nishaans' (emblems) and two 'vidhaans' (laws) cannot be there, and for this he also sacrificed his life.

People used to say that this is a dream, and we used to say that it will translate into reality. Let a true son of 'Bharatmata' like Narendra Modi become the Prime Minister, and he will fulfil the dream of Syama Prasad Mookerjee," Adityanath said.