‘ Keep us out of hullabaloo on Article 35A’
Lives of Kashmiri Pandits are being put at risk, says KPSS KPSS has said that the news about the socalled threat to the Kashmiri Pandits is aimed at increasing the trust deficit in the Valley
An organisation of Kashmiri Pandits on Monday expressed its dismay over what it said mischievous attempts being made to gratuitously connect the minority community of Jammu and Kashmir with the ongoing hullabaloo over Article 35A of the Constitution with ulterior motives.
Kashmiri Pandit Sangarsh Samiti ( KPSS), which represents a few thousand Pandits who stayed put when majority of the community fled the Valley with the outbreak of insurgency in 1990, said that the lives of these people too are being put at risk “to divert the attention from Article 35A and Article 370’.
“Right now J& K is facing political instability and amid this political chaos the news telecast by national media about the so- called threat to the Kashmiri Pandits living in Kashmir Valley is aimed at increasing the trust deficit among the populations in the Valley,” said KPSS president Sanjay K. Tickoo in a signed statement here.
He said that the KPSS strongly believed that the Kashmiri Pandits, a religious minuscule minority, is living in the Valley of its own and on the kind of relationship maintained within their respective neighborhood. “It seems that the news item about life threat to the religious minuscule minority ( Kashmiri Pandit) in Kashmir Valley is a hoax or a pre- planned conspiracy and is aimed at sacrificing the Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley to gain some vested interest or political mileage and to distract people’s attention from the issues related to Article 35A and Article 370,” he said.
Mr Tickoo further said that it also seemed that by “sacrificing the religious minuscule minority in Kashmir Valley, the vested interest agencies which are planning to do this heinous crime, want to justify the removal of Constitutional provisions which give special status to the State of Jammu and Kashmir, before the world bodies”.