BJP leaders are busy selling movies as an alternative of heeding to the plight of Kashmiri Pandits, says Sanjay Raut.
BJP leaders are busy selling movies as an alternative of heeding to the plight of Kashmiri Pandits, says Sanjay Raut.
Remarking that the state of affairs in Kashmir was getting out of hand with the rise in killings of Kashmiri Pandits and assaults on the Hindu neighborhood, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday lashed out on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) authorities on the Centre for busily selling movies reasonably than heeding to the plight of the Valley’s Kashmiri Pandits.
The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) – the Sena’s ally in Maharashtra – too, hit out on the BJP-ruled Centre for not making “concrete efforts to rehabilitate Kashmiri Pandits in their homeland.”
“Kashmir is burning once again. It is red with blood. The situation there is getting out of hand, but New Delhi’s prominent leaders are busy promoting films, be it The Kashmir Files or Samrat Prithviraj. Is this the government’s job? Why aren’t they listening to the anger of the Kashmiri Pandits,” requested Mr. Raut.
‘Militants also targeting Muslims in security forces’
He stated that not simply the Hindu neighborhood, however Muslims serving within the safety forces, too, have been being focused by militants.
“At least 17-20 of our Muslim brothers serving in our country’s security forces have been killed in the last few months. Muslim policemen of all ranks – from havildar to Superintendent of Police from Srinagar to Pulwama – have been attacked by terrorists. Thousands of Kashmiri Pandits have again begun an exodus from the Valley, but the BJP at the Centre is busy finding shivlings under the Gyanvapi mosque or the Taj Mahal,” Mr. Raut stated, remarking that the Centre’s claims of profitable surgical strikes in opposition to militants had confirmed hole with the rise in terrorist assaults within the Valley.
Given the tussle over ‘Hindutva’ in Maharashtra between the ruling Sena and the BJP, Mr. Raut stated that Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray had expressed grave concern over the deteriorating state of affairs in Kashmir and stated that Maharashtra would stand by the Kashmiri Pandits and their households by way of thick and skinny.
On Saturday, Mr. Thackeray, in a press release, stated that Maharashtra wouldn’t go away the Kashmiri Pandits within the lurch.
Hitting out on the BJP, the Sena’s estranged former ally, Mr. Thackeray additional stated that the Kashmiri Pandits have been promised a ‘homecoming’ by the Narendra Modi authorities, however had solely confronted violence since their return to the Valley.
“Kashmiri Pandits were shown the dream of ‘ghar vapasi’ (resettlement in the Valley), but they are being targeted and killed. The exodus of the Pandits is shocking,” the CM stated.
Meanwhile, NCP spokesperson Mahesh Tapase exhorted the BJP to recover from its allegedly divisive politics of caste and faith whereas remarking that Maharashtra was the one State which had provided protected passage to the displaced Kashmiri Pandits whereas the BJP had solely performed with their sentiments.
Source: www.thehindu.com
