Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 17: "It was Farooq Abdullah who triggered mass exodus of the Pandits. When the terrorists were ruling the roost in 1989-90, what was left undone by the "terror regime" was done by the then Chief Minister of the J&K state, Dr. Farooq Abdullah by abdicating his responsibilities; and he fled to London (in January 1990) along with his family leaving behind his people of the state in complete lurch, chaos and anarchy", said Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo, senior BJP and Kashmiri Pandit leader and Incharge Deptt of Political Affairs and Feedback, J&K-BJP.
"In fact he led Kashmiri Pandits to leave the valley enmass giving a clear signal that the official machinery was either incapable or unwilling to save the situation, rather to face the situation. The total anarchy, sloganeering on loud speakers from mosques, and the threat calls to the Pandits during the whole night of 19-20 January, 1990 throughout the valley, under meticulously devised plan, shut all doors for any hope of survival for the minuscule minority community of the Pandits in the valley", Chrungoo said while addressing a Global Seminar today. He was referring to the recent statement of Farooq Abdullah regarding the exodus of the Pandits and the situation of ethnic cleansing three decades back, "It was a colossal failure of everything in the valley leading the Pandits to opt for mass exodus, the most tragic happening of the last one century up-staging the tragic story of partition. The ethnic cleansing of the Pandits resulted in their becoming refugees in their own land. The genocidal actions continued against them which the National Human Rights Commission catagorised as 'acts akin to genocide' and 'genocide type design' in its decision in June 1999". |
