Srinagar: A new attack on a minority in Kashmir in the last few days triggered the exodus by Pandits Kashmiri with a number of families who left the valley on Friday, the day after the murder of two government school teachers – one of them was a Kashmir Pandit and other Kashmir Sikh.
Stunned by a new targeting of a minority community by terrorists – four killings in three days – many other families prepare to leave the valley in the next few days.
Dozens of Kashmir Pandit’s family was seen leaving Sheikhpora, an exclusively established area in the Budgam district in 2003 to bring back and rehabilitate Pandit.
Sharda Devi, who lives with his son and daughter-in-law, after his son received a job under a special package launched by the Prime Minister in 2015, said they had ordered a taxi for Saturday morning, when they planned to do it quietly leaving their homes.
Kashmir Pandit said he did not have the courage to step out of the area after the recent murder.
“We are safe in this colony because it has the right security, but we cannot go outside to work.
Some of us have to attend the office and cannot stay in the room all the time like this,” he said, asking for anonymity.
Kashmir Pandit Family who has returned to the valley hopes to rebuild their lives after their children get government work and the government has given them flat in Sheikhpura.
But the targeted killings has left them in a state of despair.
A 51-year-old Pandit Kashmiri, who moved from Shopian with his family, said, “We have not left the valley even in the worst times in the 1990s but the targeted murder of the minority community has now forced us to migrate.
Here.” Canta Devi who was not concocted, the mother of the school teacher who was killed in Deepep Chand, said the government could not confirm the safety of her son, who came to Kashmir to make a living and paid with his life.
Kanta Devi had migrated out of the valley in the 1990s.
Chand cousin Vicky Mehra said Kashmir was “hell for us, not heaven”.
“This is the return of the 1990 situation in the valley.
The government has failed to protect us,” he said, adding that he tried to call a chand on his cellphone after he knew about the attack, but it couldn’t be reached.
“Later, a terrorist takes a call from the family and threatens us too,” he said.
Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti President Sanjay Tiku told PTI: “About 500 people or more have begun to depart from various regions such as Budgam, Anantnag and Pulwama.
There are several non-Kashmir Pandit families who also leave.
It was 1990, reviewed again …
may seem invisible but migration is in progress and I anticipate this.
We have asked for the appointment of office of Lieutenant Governor in June, but has not been given until now.
“Organizations Pandit Kashmir others say several employees of the public, given a government job under The rehabilitation package in 2010-11, has begun to move to Jammu calmly afraid of their lives, accusing the government cannot give them a safe environment.
Administration, meanwhile, has given a 10-day vacation to employees from minority communities, official sources said.
Thousands of people on Friday participated in a rally, held under the banner of the Forum Peoples Jammu and Kashmir (JKPF) and raised anti-Pakistani slogans.
Vishwa Hindu Parishad, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena, and MANCH Jagran also held a demonstration against the incident, while members of the Kashmir Pandit community protested in Purkhoo, Butanagar and Muthi.
Kashmiri Pandits fled from the valley after the targeted killings
