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| Migration of minority Pandits a cultural genocide: Dr Joshi | | | Early Times report
JAMMU, June 24; The senior BJP leader and former Union HRD Minister, while expressing grave concern over the hounding out of over four lakh minority Pandits from Valley and failure of the Government to rehabilitate them in their homeland of Kashmir said the Pandits represent the ancient Indian culture and civilization in Kashmir and their return and rehabilitation was must to protect the Indian ethos
and culture in Kashmir.
Dr Joshi who held an informal
chat with the KP intellectuals and scholars expressed his dismay over the way the Government was tackling the Pandits issue and termed their forced migration cultural genocide. He while strongly advocating for protecting the age old Indian ethos and culture in Kashmir made a strong dig at those who are claiming of Kashmiriyat day in and day out and questioned what this Kashmiriyat
was?
Is Kashmiriyat separate from Hindustaniyat he asked and said is this Kashmiriyat to force the minorities out from Valley. He said Kashmiriyat is part of the age old culture of Kashmir which has its deep roots in Indian civilization and culture.
He urged the displaced Pandits to work for the preservation of this culture. The Kashmir was a mixture of Hindu and Budhist culture which flourished on land of Kashmir for thousands of years and Kashmir was closely linked to India from times immemorial.
Dr Joshi said the intellectuals and opinion makers from Valley are duty bound to work for the preservation of the same. He said the Kashmir had the influence of Vedicism and Shaivism for centuries together and no compromise will be allowed to root out the same. The world famous Shaivism of Kashmir is on extinction and this rich culture is to be preserved at any cost, he added.
The Pandit intellectuals while apprising him of the prevailing present situation in Kashmir stressed on rehabilitation of Pandits in a twin township in Valley. They sought the BJP's intervention in the matter
at national level.
The meeting was held at a residence of a prominent RSS leader from Valley. On the occasion Dr Joshi was presented a Kashmiri Samawar (tea
pot) as gift by the family. |
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