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| Jagmohan denies involvement in pundit exodus | | ‘I didn’t order killing of innocents’ | |
New Delhi, Apr 3: The former governor, Jagmohan today denied his involvement in migration of pundits from the Valley in 1990. Talking to a local news agency at New Delhi, the former governor also said that he did not order killing of innocent persons.
Blaming the `vested interests’ for unleashing `malicious propaganda’ against him, he said: “When I took over as governor of the state, thousands of pundits had already migrated from the valley and were living in camps at Jammu.”
“Determined efforts were being made by me to instill confidence in the public by re-erecting the collapsed structure of administration. But killings of eminent Kashmiri Pandits, including poet Sarvanand Koul and his young son Virender, engineer B K Ganjoo, Doordarshan station director Lassa Kaul and Prof Ganjoo had sent shock waves among the community,” he added.
Asked about his role in the massacres carried in Kashmir when he was the Governor, Jagmohan said, “Do you want to say I should have allowed rioters to take over Secretariat and other institutions. Aren’t rioters being killed this time?”
The former Governor grew angry when asked to comment on Hawal massacre that left 60 people dead, he said, “Do you want to say I ordered the CRPF men to kill people? I had no information and it was only after DIG called me I came to know about the incident,” he replied.
“Why don’t you ask who killed Molvi Farooq,” Jagmohan asked.
Jagmohan who in his first term as Governor of J&K in 80’s did good work as an administrator is remembered as a ‘killer’ in his second term which lasted just 5-months from January 1990 to May 1990.
“As my track record as an administrator during my first term was excellent, pro-Pak elements were afraid of me and they launched propaganda against me. I didn’t order killing of any innocent as killing one innocent person is killing whole humanity,” he added.
The former Governor has recently completed second part of his book on Kashmir “My Frozen Turbulences”
“I’ve also written seven other books and these days writing is my main job,” he added.
The latest edition of “My Frozen Turbulences” touches issues from stone pelting to Amarnath Shrine Board land transfer issue and killing of former Pakistani Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto.
Jagmohan has word of advice for Kashmiri youth. “Go by records and don’t believe in rumors.”
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