Rahul Gandhi: PM Modi's arrangements consuming Kashmir

New Delhi, Jul 21 Congress VP Rahul Gandhi on Friday charged that the Narendra Modi government's policies are "consuming" Jammu and Kashmir and flayed any attempt for third party intervention to determine the issue, saying "Kashmir is India"

Kashmir has been confronting agitation as far back as Hizbul Mujahideen leader Burhan Wani was murdered in an encounter with security forces last year.

"I have been saying this for quite a while that Modi's and the NDA's policies are burning Jammu and Kashmir," he told correspondents outside Parliament

"It is being said there ought to be talk on Kashmir with China and Pakistan however my feeling is that Kashmir is India and India is Kashmir and this is our internal matter..

our inner business and nobody ought to meddle in it," he said

Responding to China's offer of playing a "useful part" in settling the Kashmir issue, India had prior said its remain of settling all issues respectively with Pakistan, including Jammu and Kashmir, has not changed.