To begin with, hundreds of Kashmiri Pandits came out in Srinagar today in protest against targeted killings. Many of them, especially government employees from the Kashmiri Pandit community, have left the valley and the rest have threatened to migrate to the Jammu region, putting a jobs package for them by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at risk of failing.
Meanwhile visuals of several hundreds of Kashmiri pandits in Srinagar, Kashmir show them shouting and yelling slogans and demanding to leave the valley to voice their protest when one day a bank manager from Rajasthan was shot fed by a terrorist I’m the Kulgam region in a row of yet another second targeted on Hindus in the last three in alone.
Amit Koul leads protests and raises voices for the minority community
Moreover, Amit Koul, who led protests in Srinagar for three weeks, shared a photo from the Srinagar-Jammu highway.
Meanwhile, to stop them from leaving, the Union Territory administration had put up barricades and locked gates to transit camps. The minority community has been protesting since Rahul Bhat, a Kashmiri Pandit, was shot dead inside the magistrate’s office in Budgam last month.
Subsequently, Srinagar Airport said a media report that Kashmiri Pandits are flying out in large numbers is inaccurate. “We strongly rebut this sensational rumour-mongering. We handle between 16,000 to 18,000 passengers every day. Today also the count of passengers is standard. There is no heavy dash of minority faction as rumoured. Please do not roll out rumours like this, the airport tweeted on its official manoeuvre.”
Amit Shah meets with National Security Adviser to evaluate the situation
In conclusion, the Home Minister Amit Shah met with National Security Adviser Ajit Doval in Delhi to evaluate the critical circumstances. Mr Shah has also called the Union Territory’s Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha to Delhi for a meeting. The Home Minister is likely to ask him why, despite the centre’s efforts, the administration has not been able to indemnify security for the minority section in the valley.
