Jammu, May 12 -- 'Before Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power we had the same police force, same army, same CRPF and the same BSF.'

'India needed a mahasevak who could take on the terror elements working in the country.'

Altaf Thakur, spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Jammu and Kashmir unit, has been holding high the party flag in the Valley for the last two decades.

He joined the party after then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee lost the general elections in 2004 and has remained a committed party worker since.

Thakur has been attacked by terrorists for his association with the BJP; he was also kidnapped, but he fought off his kidnappers.

Asked why he joined the BJP in the Kashmir Valley, Altaf Thakur tells Syed ...