New delhi sources stated that a meeting of the Congress' top decision-making body to appoint its next chief was briefly halted after reports of "violence and deaths" emerged from Jammu and Kashmir, former party president rahul Gandhi claimed on Saturday night. Meanwhile he said this to reporters minutes before the party leadership formally announced that his mother, UPA chairperson sonia gandhi, has been appointed as the interim Congress chief.
Furthermore rahul Gandhi, who emerged from the meeting around 10 pm, said that the meeting to choose his successor was stopped over disturbing reports from the Valley. He told reporters "Things are going very wrong there. There are reports of violence, of people dying. We stopped deliberation on our meeting to conduct a presentation on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir”. Reportedly "It is imperative that Prime Minister Narendra modi and the central government come clean on the matter."
Moreover rahul Gandhi had criticized the centre over its handling of the Kashmir issue on earlier occasions too. He tweeted on Tuesday, a day after the centre scrapped Jammu and Kashmir's special status "Kashmir's mainstream political leaders have been jailed at secret locations. This is unconstitutional and undemocratic. It's also shortsighted and foolish because it will allow terrorists to fill the leadership vacuum created by the Government of india. The imprisoned leaders must be released".
