Kashmiri Pandits homeless within homeland!
Kashmiri Pandits homeless within homeland!
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More than two decades ago, frightened and shattered miniscule minority community members of the Kashmir Valley fled their homes; they came to be identified as ‘Migrants’, courtesy the state administration of the time that invented the word ‘Migrant’. Here the question arise that, Are the KPs migrants? The reply is a straight forward: No. Not at all! 

Kashmiri Pandit is the Brahmin community in the Jammu and Kashmir. They are the only Hindus left in that state. The ethnic cleansing of Brahmins started in 1990s. They were ordered to leave the Kashmir. They were given the option of either leaving the Kashmir or they will be killed. Around 60,000 families after the announcement left the Kashmir valley in which some Sikh family was also included.

This all started in late 1886 when Ghulam Mohammad shah became the chief minister of the Jammu and Kashmir and decided to built a Mosque in area of Hindu temple in Jammu. When people protested about it he told Muslim people that “Islam is in Danger” and we should protect it. After which the Kashmiri Pandits where targeted by the Muslims. The properties and temples of Hindus were destroyed and they were killed in Masses. When in 1989 Pandit Tika Lal Taploo killed by Muslims it made the Hindus to leave the Kashmir as they could sense the danger of their life. 100,000 of the total Kashmiri Pandit population left the valley in 1990.

According to the Indian government 1,800 People returned back. According to the Jammu And Kashmir Migrant Immovable Property Act "Any person who is an unauthorised occupant or recipient of any usufruct of any immovable property of the migrant shall pay to the migrant such compensation for the period of unauthorised occupation and in such a manner as may be determined by the District Magistrate."

The chief minister Farroq Abdullah on January 19 in an interview asked the Kashmiri pandits to return back.  Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh on 20 July said that “He will rehabilate the Kashmiri Pandits in Uttar Pradesh”.

The Governments, both at the centre and state, shall have to make sincere and impassioned efforts to preserve ‘Kashmiriyat’ and the CM of the state shall have to come to its fullest flowering in the changed dynamics and accept the sacred trust seriously and not to treat it lightly. KPs need a Budshah, let Mufti Mohammad Sayeed be that. The Coalition Government in the state shall be guilty of committing a sin if they do not uphold justice by every means. 

 

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