The Congress on Thursday launched a tirade against the central government over the exodus of Kashmiri Hindu families from Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian on the occasion of Diwali. Congress also demanded the issue of a white paper on what the government has done for them in the last eight years. Speaking about the issue, Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera said, “The pain of refugees is very hard to understand. We are talking about Kashmiri Pandits in a place like Shopian, where they didn’t leave their homes for 32 years.” He said, “While we were celebrating Diwali, 15 families of Kashmiri Pandits left their houses in Shopian.” Taking a jibe at the ruling BJP, the Congress leader said that in 1989, when the first migration of Kashmiri Pandits happened, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which gave support to VP Singh’s government, continued to support the government. Citing the example of the late PM Rajiv Gandhi-led Congress government, Khera said that after riots in Kashmir in 1986, Kashmiri Pandits protested in Delhi and the Jammu and Kashmir government was brought down. Slamming the BJP, the Congress leader said that 70 ministers of the central government have been doing outreach programmes in Kashmir since October 10. “Have any of the
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The Congress on Thursday launched a tirade against the central government over the exodus of Kashmiri Hindu families from Jammu and Kashmir’s Shopian on the occasion of Diwali.
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Great article. “The result of which has seen a serious demographic shift in Sweden. The country with a population of just about one crore now has a 20% Islamic population. There has been a phenomenal rise of crime and terrorism-related incidents as a result, with shootings and bombings assuming a near-permanent position in their national landscape.”
It’s almost as if true secular values and public safety go for a toss wherever one particular community reaches a critical mass. This same community is a poster child for Nicholas Nasim Taleb’s hypothesis about the dangers of an intransigent minority oppressing a tolerant majority. Hopefully, with the waning of the globalist liberal order, Western media will quiet its lectures and tirades against India.