NEW DELHI: Twenty-six years after Kashmiri Pandits were forced to flee the Valley, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Farooq Abdullah has put the blame on them for not returning to their homes.
“They have to realise that nobody is going to come with a begging bowl and say come and stay with us. They have to make the move,” he said.
He was speaking at the launch of a book of first hand narratives of stories of persecution and struggle by several generations of Pandits evicted from the state and who yearned to return to a peaceful co-existence with their Muslim neighbours.
Abdullah said that several Pandits who had made their homes in Delhi had come to see him when the J-K Government asked them to return to the Valley.
“When the Government made a move that the officers and doctors who are settled here should come back, they came to see me and said, look our children are now in schools here, our parents are ill and need medical care, we can’t leave them back. So for God’s sake let us live here,” he said. (AGENCIES)
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