People Don’t Want Kashmiris To Be Part of Indians: P Chidambaram

by Abbas Adil

New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday said that some people want Kashmir to be part of India but don’t want Kashmiris to be part of Indians terming the irony of the situation depressing.

The former home and finance minister took a jibe at Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy’s statement that he favoured a call for the boycott of Kashmiri products and visiting the state as tourists.

“The irony of the situation is depressing. We want Kashmir to be part of India, but we do not want Kashmiris to be part of Indians,” he said in a tweet.

Chidambaram said the ‘Statue of Unity’, the182 metre statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, located near Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat, watches over the governor of Meghalaya and others who seem to think that Kashmiris have no place in India.

Following Lethpora attack many videos of Kashmiris staying outside valley -especially students– went viral on social media in which they were seen expressing fear for their lives and were requesting authorities to help them to reach safe haven.

There have been incidents of threats to Kashmiri students and people studying or working in Dehradun, Jammu, Kolkata and Muzaffarnagar and other places, leading to some of them leaving places and returning to their homes in Jammu and Kashmir.

The incidents took place after 40 CRPF personnel were killed and five injured last week in one of the deadliest attacks in Jammu and Kashmir for which the Jaish-e-Mohammad has taken responsibility.

 Earlier the Supreme Court  agreed to hear on February 22 a PIL seeking a direction to authorities to protect Kashmiri students who are allegedly being attacked across the country in the aftermath of the Pulwama terror strike.

A bench, comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices L N Rao and Sanjiv Khanna, on February 21 took note of senior advocate Colin Gonsalves’ submission that the plea needed to be heard urgently as it relates to the safety and security of students.

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