TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has said that Kashmiri Pandits were being forced to leave the valley due to the targeted killings and demanded the centre declare an action plan to stop the attacks. Addressing the Aam Aadmi Party’s ‘Jan Aakrosh Rally’ at Jantar Mantar in Delhi, he said Kashmiri Pandits were facing a repeat of what happened to them in the 1990s.
“The BJP can’t handle Kashmir, they only know how to do dirty politics. Please don’t do politics over Kashmir,” the AAP chief said. “The BJP government is not even allowing them (Kashmiri Pandits) to protest the killings. They are being confined, their rights being scuttled,” he said. “The government has completely failed to provide security to the people living in Kashmir. This is similar to what happened in 1990,” he said.
Mr Kejriwal also hit out at Pakistan, accusing it of supporting terrorists in Kashmir. “I want to tell Pakistan to stop petty tactics. Kashmir will always be part of India,” he said. Kashmir has been hit by a spate of targeted killings of by terrorists, who have targeted mostly Hindus and non-locals. Scores of Kashmiri Pandits, who were employed under a central government scheme in 2012, have been staging protests threatening mass exodus since the killing of Rahul Bhat, who was shot dead by terrorists on May 12 in the Chadoora area of Budgam district in central Kashmir.
