Kavitha booked on sedition charges
NEW DELHI: Kalvakuntla Kavitha, TRS MP and daughter of Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhara Rao, has been booked for sedition over her alleged remarks on Jammu & Kashmir and Telangana states on Monday.
An FIR has been registered against the MP based on a complaint filed by K Karunasagar, advocate and BJP city legal cell convener. The complainant in the petition had alleged Kavitha had, during an interview, made observations that Jammu and Kashmir and Telangana states were not part of India earlier.
While responding to a question at the Idea Exchange program of the Indian Express, Kavitha said, "Jammu & Kashmir and Telangana were both forcefully and at the same time annexed to the Indian Union. When I say I feel strongly, it's because we were both separate countries, but were merged with the Indian Union after Independence. In 1947, we were not a part of India.
"After 1947, we became a part of India. Then the troubles really started. None of our people was very rich before. So it's from the people's perspective that I've started reading about Jammu & Kashmir.
We need to solve issues, particularly the Kashmiri pandits' issue which is put up in the agenda of the BJP. They say we can all take them back home, but it is just a political statement.
You have to create a safe environment before you take them there. We need to come out clean on Jammu & Kashmir. Few parts were not ours, we should agree, we should redraw the international lines, and move on," she said.
News Posted: 11 August, 2014
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