05 November Tuesday

Kashmiri Pandits continue their protests against BJP, demand relocation

Gulzar NakhasiUpdated: Monday May 23, 2022

Srinagar : After the recent  killing of a Kashmiri pandit employee , the anger of the minority community  against the BJP government refuses to die down.

Scores of Kashmiri Pandit employees on Saturday took to streets in Srinagr's Rajbagh locality and  marched towards Lal Chowk, the business nerve centre of the Valley.

Raising slogans against the BJP government and Lietunent Governor's administration, the protesters were demanding relocation of their posts.

The community has begun feeling unsafe in the Valley after the recent targeted   killing of Rahul Bhat, a pandit  employee, who worked with revenue department in Central Kashmir's Budgam district. Bhat was shot dead by militants inside his office last week.

The killing of Bhat triggered protests from the minority community  across the Valley.

"We are not feeling safe in the Valley. We have been targeted time and again by the militants. Modi led BJP  government at the Centre has failed to protect us", said Ajay Koul, a Kashmiri pandit employee.

Koul said that government must post them outside the Valley.

This is for the first time when the members of the minority community  hit the streets and demanded their relocation.

Hundreds of Kashmiri pandits returned to the Valley after they got government employment under the prime minister's special package rolled out in 2008 during the UPA government.

The situation,  however, went downhill  following the revocation of article 370 as the  militants began targeting the members of the  minority community in the Valley


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