New Delhi: Law Minister Kiren Rijiju mounted a fresh attack on the country's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, on the Kashmir issue on Monday, claiming that he moved the United Nations under the wrong Article after Pakistan's invasion, thereby making it a party to the dispute instead of an aggressor.
Rijiju also said Nehru let the "myth" of a UN-mandated plebiscite perpetuate and created the "divisive" Article 370 of the Constitution. "Nehru rejected Maharaja Hari Singh's plea to accede to India not just once but thrice," he wrote on Twitter. The Lok Sabha member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from Arunachal Pradesh also hit out at Hari Singh's son Karan Singh, saying he presented a "sanitised history, resorted to poor wordplay, and, that too, in a roundabout way to somehow extricate Nehru" on the then prime minister delaying the accession of Kashmir.