The era of killings, stone pelting, hartals, strikes and bands are now history and a thing of past and in present times and after the happenings and developments of 2019, Jammu and Kashmir again became a paradise on earth and Kashmiris felt a sense of pride, glory and belongingness to the nation and all this was made possible because of the determined leadership of PM Narendra Modi who is taking much and serious interest in the peace, normalcy and development of Jammu and Kashmir. In J&k much has changed and there is marked difference and change from those hay days of militancy of 1989-90’s and the three decades of terrorism is fading away and there is an atmosphere of peace, normalcy, tranquillity, progress, prosperity and economic as well as social development post 2019 constitutional happenings and all this positive change and development has become possible in Jammu and Kashmir solely because of the determination, political will power, vision and leadership quality of the most popular Prime minister and great leader of the country.
Now from August 2019 onwards the economic and tourist activity has gained momentum as during all these six years since 2019 ,there has been a significant increase in the tourist and pilgrim tourist footfall and this has led to the economic development as all the people connected directly or indirectly have gained from the flourishing tourist industry and all this is no ordinary development nor is it mean development by any stretch of imagination. It is aptly said so often that, "Modi hai tu Mumkin hai’’ and this is very much true in case of Jammu and Kashmir. Modi has undone the constitutional and political wrong of seventy, five years by annulling the most controversial Article 370 which was the artificial and superficial wall of distrust.
Modi did what congress and other opposition parties could not do in 75 years after the independence. Modi deserves commendation and salute for fully integrating Jammu and Kashmir with the Indian union and Modi thus realised the vision and dream of Dr Shyama Prasad Mukerjee and thus indeed did a great job of totally integrating Jammu and Kashmir with India. Many significant and epoch- making developments took place in Jammu and Kashmir since the happenings of August 2019.Contineous changes have taken place in J&K post abrogation of Article 370 and bifurcation of the erstwhile state into two UTs of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh. Since August 2019 many far-reaching developments, positive changes have taken place in Jammu and Kashmir as the fear of gun has been reduced and there is full stop to terrorist and militant acts barring some very few incidents sparingly.
Jammu and Kashmir is on the march to development and growth is visible in various sectors and along with peace, normalcy, there has emerged an atmosphere of social and economic development thanks to the leadership and acumen of the PM Narendra Modi, who has given top most priority to J&K in his scheme of things. During all these six years all the benefits of central schemes and programmes have percolated to the last person in the queue. Even during the past 11 years of NDA rule, all the benefits of central schemes haver reached to the people of Jammu and Kashmir and this has become possible due to the able and capable leadership of the PM Narendra Modi. Had not the Article 370 been removed, no benefit of central schemes would have gone to the people of Jammu and Kashmir. It had also led to peace, normalcy and economic and social development. Under the able guidance of Modi, a discrimination-less Jammu and Kashmir has been ensured. LG Manoj Sinha has said in a function in Delhi that J &K regained its identity of paradise post 2019 developments. He said that his administration has been successful at a large extent in realising vision of 4 P’s - Peace, Progress, Prosperity and People First. Sinha said that August 5,2019 and June 6,2025 will remain etched in the memory of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
While August 5,2019 led to the fuller integration of JK with India and June 6 led to the physical and emotional connectivity between JK and Kaniyakumari and connecting Kashmir with the southernmost part of india, Kaniyakumari is a historical development and it will result in the physical and emotional connectivity between the people of JK and India. The railway line will not only connect Kashmir with Kaniyakumari but it will result in the economic development of Kashmir which stand aloof from development and industrial as well as investment because of the superficial walls of distrust and mistrust created by Article 370.The abrogation of the Article 370 resulted in the application of all central laws as well as developmental schemes and thus there is unprecedented development and huge footfall of tourists in JK. But the peace, normalcy and overall development is an eyesore to the enemies across the boarders and thus they resorted and engineered the terror attack on our tourists in Baisaran valley near world famous tourist resort of Pahalgam to derail peace ,tranquility and development.
Pakistan was uneasy with our development and thus she resorted to terror attack on tourists in the meadows of Baisaran valley killing 25 tourists and a local man who tried to defend tourists. Kasahmiris stood one against terrorism and condemned Pahalgam terrorist attack strongly and even held protest demonstrations against terrorism and made it clear that Kashmir will not be intimidated with such coward and despicable terror acts and Kashmiris rose one against terrorism and resolved that the peace, tranquillity and development cannot be allowed to be derailed and they gave a bold and clear message that the people of JK are united in the fight against terrorism and resolved that terrorism cannot be allowed to eclipse tourism and economic development and the march of development and normalcy will continue despite terror attack So Pak failed to foment communal clashes in India as a result of the despicable terror attack on tourists.
Despite the security situation, India stood as one people regardless of faith and religion and slapped Pakistan in the face and said no, we will not let your cancer of hatred derail peace, development, and tourism in Kashmir. In fact, tourists are flocking to Kashmir in confidence as they know that Kashmir is calling them, and the terrorists cannot intimidate or threaten tourists from visiting Kashmir. With the exception of a very short lull in tourism, visitors are returning to Kashmir as Kashmiri's and the union territory government has offered a fool-proof security plan for tourists. I must say, tourism in Kashmir is starting to come back to its pre-2019 normal, and Jammu and Kashmir has once again regained its identity and international recognition of being a paradise on earth, and the past glory of the place is returning, as depicted in the pre-2019 posts by tourists.
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