Nationwide Convention (NC) chief Farooq Abdullah on Saturday appealed to the Kashmiri Pandits to “come again dwelling”. The Kashmiri Hindu group confronted a mass exodus within the early Nineties when armed insurgency and terrorism peaked within the Valley, forcing them to flee Kashmir.
In an assurance to the Kashmiri Pandits, Abdullah, who can also be J&Ok’s former CM, stated they “ought to really feel that the Nationwide Convention authorities will not be their enemy”.
“I hope that our brothers and sisters who’ve left from right here come again dwelling. Now the time has come, they need to return to their properties. We don’t assume solely about Kashmiri Pandits, however we additionally take into consideration the individuals of Jammu, we must always deal with them effectively, they need to additionally really feel that the Nationwide Convention authorities will not be their enemy. We’re Indians and we wish to take everybody alongside,” Farooq Abdullah stated.
Abdullah’s NC celebration, in alliance with the Congress celebration, swept the lately concluded J&Ok meeting polls, bagging 42 seats within the 90-member Home whereas the Congress received six seats.
Within the polls, greater than 35,000 displaced Kashmiri Pandits from throughout the nation have been eligible to vote at 24 polling stations within the first section of the three-phased Meeting elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
Within the second section, almost 40 per cent of eligible Kashmiri Pandits solid their ballots throughout the polling stations in Jammu, Delhi and Udhampur.
The Kashmiri Pandits registered a voter turnout of over 30 per cent within the third and closing section of the elections in Jammu and Kashmir. Unfold throughout 16 meeting segments in three districts of North Kashmir, out of 18,357 registered displaced Pandit voters, 5,545 turned as much as solid their votes at 24 specifically designated polling cubicles in Jammu, Udhampur and Delhi-NCR.
What number of Kashmiri Pandits have been pressured to depart?
The migration numbers have modified rather a lot over time, even in official information, presumably as a result of they’re consistently up to date.
Within the years proper after Kashmiri Pandits began leaving, the federal government put out an estimate of fifty,000 households who had left Kashmir due to militancy.
The 2022 estimate is definitely decrease — at 44,684. The variety of migrant individuals, in accordance with the Union ministry of dwelling affairs in 2022, is slightly over 1.5 lakh.
