Image Source: Agencies

The BJP has utilized the Kashmiri Pandit people group's aggravation and enduring as a "weapon" to collect votes the nation over, Individuals' Progressive faction boss Mehbooba Mufti claimed on Tuesday. Individuals' Leftist faction (PDP) president was talking subsequent to visiting the home of Roshan Lal, a Kashmiri Pandit and a photojournalist who kicked the bucket last month, in the city's Abi Guzar region. "The BJP has not just involved the Kashmiri Pandits as a vote bank yet as a weapon too. It has involved the agony of the Kashmiri Pandits as a weapon and afterward utilized that weapon to earn the votes of others," she claimed. "The Pandit people group doesn't have such countless votes themselves however the BJP utilized their agony and enduring and circumvented looking for votes in their name, without taking any kind of action for them," she told columnists. Mehbooba, a previous boss clergyman of the recent state, said since the BJP-drove Center started to straightforwardly control Jammu and Kashmir, "even those Kashmiri Pandits who used to live here have left on the grounds what is going on turned out to be such". The PDP boss said Lal was a dear companion of her dad Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and lived in the Valley in spite of the circumstance that is depicted in certain movies, alluding to "The Kashmir Documents". "Kashmiris are slandered the nation over, films are made about them. I think Lal living here in the midst of fraternity is the solution to those movies. There was an enormous surge of individuals to pay their sympathies after Lal's demise. This is the greatest illustration of fellowship," she added. Lal living in the Valley in a "truly challenging circumstance" was an example for the country's Hindu people group, Mehbooba said. "What's going on in the nation - - how individuals from our local area are lynched, killed, pounded, our mosques and madrassas wrecked, homes are obliterated. Individuals of our country, our Hindu brethren, are mainstream. They don't trust in this, this is an illustration for them that Lal lived here in extremely challenging times and that Muslims and Hindus are prepared to live here as they used to," she said. Talking on the arrival of the Kashmiri Pandits to the Valley, Mehbooba said the local area needn't bother with the assistance of any administration. "Our Kashmiri Pandit family living in Jammu or somewhere else in undeniably challenging conditions, I figure they don't require help from anybody to settle here - - whether the public authority is of the BJP or Mehbooba Mufti or another person. Individuals of Kashmir maintain that the Kashmiri Pandits should return," she said.