Kochi: The Kerala Congress on Sunday launched an attack on Bharatiya Janata Party amid the Kashmiri Pandits Issue following the meet of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and ‘The Kashmir Files’ team, including director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri and producer Abhishek Agarwal.
Sharing the facts about the Kashmiri Pandits issues, the Kerala Congress claims that the mass migration of the Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir Valley took place under Governor Jagmohan, who is from Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
In the series of tweets, they have alleged that the migration of Pandits started under the BJP-supported VP Singh government. They further claimed that Kashmiri Pandits were asked to relocate to Jammu after terror attacks against them in the Valley, by BJP.
“A large number of Pandit families did not feel secure and left the valley in fear,” the Kerala Congress tweeted. “BJP was engineering a Hindu-Muslim divide in the country over the Ram Mandir issue in Ayodhya during the migration. Pandits’ issue suited BJP’s propaganda to create a fake outrage for electoral gain.”
“BJP-supported VP Singh government came to power in December 1989. Pandits’ migration started the very next month, in January 1990. BJP did nothing and continued supporting VP Singh till November 1990,” it added.
In one of the tweets the Party claimed that during the 1948 communal riots, over 1 lakh Kashmiri Muslims were killed in Jammu. But there were no there were no retaliatory killings of Pandits. The community is victim of terror it further added.
“BJP, which sheds crocodile tears for Pandits, did not bring them back to Kashmir or resettle them despite being in power for two terms at the centre and one term in Kashmir,” it tweeted.
Further it pointed that BJP had lied about the government support to displaced Pandit families and claimed credits of the initiatives of the Congress. UPA government gave jobs to 15,000 Pandits and recruited 6,000 Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir government.
On this BJP has said that ‘Congress does not understands History.’ Reacting on the allegations made by Congress, BJP MP KJ Alphons said the grand old party has hugely distorted versions. He said that on communal grounds, over 1.5 lakh Kashmiri Pandits were driven out.
“Congress and its allies created a situation in which the pandits couldn’t live anymore; they were murdered, there was a genuine fear for their lives, so they left… things have improved dramatically after the revocation of Article 370,” Alphons was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
The saffron party has demanded that the movie, ‘The Kashmir Files’ should be made tax free in Delhi and Maharashtra. Several states ruled by BJP including Haryana, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, have declared the film tax free.
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