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The 28-odd survivors of the Nadimarg massacre, on their way to Jammu yesterday, were stopped by authorities and driven to a guest house in Anantnag they were persuaded to stay back.
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KPs determined to leave
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| SRINAGAR: Efforts of the J-K govt to prevent fresh migration of Hindus from the Valley received a jolt on Sunday when the surviving KPs in Nadimarg decided to leave the Valley. The KPs have decided to leave for Jammu on Monday following ‘‘pressure’’ from their migrant relations, a spokesman of the Pandits told reporters here. Nearly 2.5 lakh KPs have migrated since March 1990. Fifteen families of the community in Acchabal area of Anantnag district have informed police that they would also migrate if the community members of Nadimarg migrated to Jammu. (PTI) |
The state government had roped in senior Kashmiri Pandit bureaucrats, planning commissioner Vijay Bakaya and additional director general of CID Kuldeep Khuda. The officials reportedly assured the survivors of adequate security in the village. The government has deployed heavily armed police personnel in Nadimarg along withe CRPF contingent on the outskirts of the village.
Ruling PDP’s vice-president Mehbooba Mufti also visited the families today. Later, she said she didn’t know that the convoy taking the Kashmiri Pandits was intercepted by state officials in Anantnag. ‘‘I had gone there today but I don’t know that they had tried leaving but were stopped on their way to Jammu and brought back,’’ she claimed.
However, she said that there would be no pressure on the Pandits to stay back. ‘‘I told them not to abandon their homes. They are feeling insecure after such a big tragedy. They should be made to feel secure. But whatever decision they take would be theirs only,’’ she said.
The only Kashmiri Pandit minister in the government, Raman Mattoo, has also been meeting the people, assuring them to stay back.
Meanwhile, the Kashmiri Pandit migrants settled in Jammu have accused the state government of holding the Nadimarg survivors as hostages.
