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Srinagar, May 2: Bidding farewell to Kashmir after he was fired upon by gunmen way back in 1990, Bhushan Lal Mawa, a Kashmiri Pandit has come back after 29 years to restart his business in Zaina Kadal area of old city Srinagar.
Bushan Lal was given a warm welcome by his fellow businessmen in the area and has asked rest of the Pandit community to return to Kashmir and at the same time asking the Government to create conducive environment for it.
“In October 1990 someone came and fired upon me. I received two bullets in the abdomen and one hit me in the shoulder. The incident forced me to flee Kashmir and I settled in Delhi,” he said.
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He said that though he was well settled in Delhi, but there was a kind of longing to return to Kashmir. “It is this longing that made me to return”, he said.
“I have a name in Delhi, but somewhere, deep in my heart there was a longing to return to Kashmir, I used to miss my place. I used to miss the brotherhood, affection of my place. It is that longing which has finally made me to return to Kashmir,” he said.
On the other side, a local Kashmir doctor came personally to welcome Bhushan Lal at his shop after finishing off his night shift. He said that he could not control himself when he saw a video on the social networking site.
On the welcome that he was given by the locals, Lal said that he was given hero’s welcome and that he has no words to express the feeling. “I have come back after 29 years. I don’t have words to express this feeling. I was given hero’s welcome”, he said.
He asked the rest of the Pandit community to reconsider their decision and return to Kashmir. “Kashmiri Pandits should bear this in mind that every Kashmiri is not a militant, if some are there, we cannot generalize things. They should reconsider their decision and come back”, he suggested.
He said that Kashmiri Pandits were craving to return to Kashmir as deep down, there is a longing to come back. However, he said, there is a need to create conducive atmosphere.
“Kashmiri Pandits are actually craving to come back to Kashmir, but for that an atmosphere is to be created. The gap that was created has to be filled and that has to be filled by the people and Government,” he said.
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