Parliament on Wednesday approved a ₹1.42-lakh-crore budget for the Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir for 2022-23, with the Rajya Sabha returning the relevant Bills to the Lok Sabha amidst a war of words between the treasury benches and the Opposition on “internationalisation of the Kashmir problem”.
The Lok Sabha passed the Bills on March 14.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, replying to the debate, said, “In the December of 1947, on the advice of the British government, our first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru took the matter to U.N. He internationalised the issue, which even years later, our neighbours have been misusing it. It’s an issue which should not have gone to a global forum. This was essentially an Indian issue which we could have handled and we are doing it. We have shown the difference now.”
