Prabhat Ranjan Deen
Lucknow, Aug 23: The prominent Kashmiri Pandits of Uttar Pradesh are sternly condemning the petition filed in Supreme Court by some ‘so-called Kashmiri Pandits’ against the abrogation of Article 370 from Jammu & Kashmir.
The Kashmiri Pandits residing in Lucknow and in different parts of Uttar Pradesh have sharply and unanimously reacted on the petition and pronounced the signatories list, a ‘shit-list’. It is worth to mention that the 64 signatories of the petition include Air Vice Marshal (retd.) Kapil Kak, theatre artist M.K. Raina and some other academics, journalists, students and researchers, who say that the Central Government proceeded to revoke J&K’s special status and to reorganize it into two Union Territories in ‘clandestine manner’.
In the process, Central Government did not consult the people of Jammu and Kashmir, thus, the abrogation of Article 370 is not legitimate.
Reacting on the petition, Deepak Kachroo, the spokesperson of Panun Kashmir in Uttar Pradesh said that most of the signatories of the petition are only ‘notional’ Kashmiri Pandits, who have never been seen contributing to the cause of the community and the state at any point of time. Their conscience did not guide them in any manner even when genocide, ethnic cleansing and forced mass exodus took place in 1989-90.
These selfish people have always been adding to the detriment of the community, and a few of them virtually have been fleecing some of us in order to meet their selfish ends over the last three decades. Kachroo, on behalf of Panun Kashmir, categorically said that the petitioner’s action is brazen and unworthy of any cognizance of value. However, they needed a response and also a befitting reply to learn a lesson for future.
The spokesperson of Panun Kashmir, saluted the decision of the Central Government, which will develop both the Union Territories of J&K and Ladakh. Economic progress, investment in infrastructure and education in J&K would tip the balance in favour of pluralism and secularism. He hoped and wished that the positive thinking would certainly win over the hate preaching minarets and the religious agenda to divide and rule.
The youth will vote for the beats of music than falling for war drums. Let J&K be the Switzerland of the subcontinent. Once that happens, India would not need to reclaim the PoK. Deepak Kachroo said, ‘I can envisage a time when the people of Kashmir on the Pakistan side would riot to join the rest of the J&K. If the Berlin wall could not stand, no other wall can do.’
Ravindra Kotru, Prakash Kaul, Anil Rajdan and many other Kashmiri Pandits have criticized the petition and clearly said it a pre-planned agenda dictated and directed by the separatist elements. This is obviously a ‘puppet-dance’. They questioned the petitioner’s claim to be ‘open-hearted’ and asked where were they when large number of Hindu Valmeekis converted into Islam in Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan’s constituency Rampur of Uttar Pradesh to prevent their houses from getting demolished and the Kashmiri separatists lauded their conversion into Islam openly?
When the separatist leader Yaseen Malik openly said on TV channel that all the talk of Kashmiri Pandits being extremely attached to their native homes is nuisance. If they really were so desperate to save their homeland and houses, they would not have thought twice before doing what Hindu Valmikis did, why these so-called high profile Kashmiri Pandits kept mum at that time? When separatist cum terrorist Masarat Alam openly challenged Kashmiri Pandits to do what Hindu Valmeekis did in Rampur, what the ‘open-hearted’ Kashmiri elites were doing that time, why didn’t they signed a mass-petition then?
They said with heavy heart, ‘we were criminally forced to leave our home-land by the communal insects tried to eat out the entire valley. We still hope and wish to return to our home.’
Ravindra Kotru still remembers his house at Srinagar having 16 kanal land near Dal Lake, which was captured by one PDP leader. Anil Rajdan has his 2k square feet house in Karnpur, Anantnag, which was bulldozed. Rajdan family have all the legal documents, now they are hopeful to get their house in the changed scenario. Deepak Kachroo too has his huge land of 12k square feet near Dal Lake in Renawari locality, which was captured by some people.
Rohini Bhan is a resident of Madho Nagar in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh and belongs to Pulwama. Her father Gopinath Bhan left his home with family members and came down to Udhampur to save their children, when some other close relations were butchered in 1990. Rohini was only 6 years old, but still remembers the horrifying days. The moment Rohini got married with Gaurav Banga of Saharanpur, her right of being Kashmiri was seized of. Now after the abrogation of Article 370 and 35-A, she is happy and hopeful to get her rights back.
Kiran Mattu is a principal in Jain Academy Secondary School in Khekda of Bagpat district in Uttar Pradesh. Kiran belongs to Baramulla from where her family with many others were forced to vacate their home land in 1990. After 29 long years, Kiran Mattu’s dream to return to her home is going to be fulfilled, as she wished.
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