Er P L Khushu
Yet another brutal killing of a young non-Muslim teacher Rajni Bala, 36, who belonged to Samba district and was posted at a government school in Gopalpora, was shot dead by terrorists earlier in the day. Bala is the second non-Muslim government employee killed in May. Similarly, earlier so many non-Muslims working in Kashmir working to earn their bread and butter, belonging to the other parts of India, were similarly killed mercilessly by the terrorists. Kashmiri Pandit Rahul Bhat, working in the office of Tehsildar Chadroo, in the district Badgam of Kashmir. He was shot dead inside the main office premises of the Tehsil Office at Chaddora, district Budgam, Kashmir on May 13, 2022, in broad daylight under the very nose of others working in that office, of course being mostly Muslim employees. The lured terrorists barged into the Tehsil office Chadoora and shot from a close-range Rahul Bhat, working under Prime Minister’s Rehabilitation Package (PMRP), as a clerk. Another brutal killing of such a nature was that of a Kashmiri Pandit Rakesh Pandita, the President of Municipal Committee Tral, which was done by Jehadis at Tral Kashmir on June 2, 2021, after another gruesome killing of Ajay Pandita a Kashmiri Pandit and a Sarpanch at Larkipora, Anantnag, who was shot dead by unidentified terrorists at Lokbawan in Anantnag on June 8, 2020. Prime Minister’s Rehabilitation Package (PMRP) for the KPs has become a death trap for Rahul Bhat, who was working just as a clerk under this rehabilitation scheme of the Prime Minister of India for the migrant Kashmiri Pandits. The point is to make Kashmir an Islamic hyperbole with the sole aim to ensure that no one other than a fanatic Muslim lives there. Such an unholy epic has its seeds in Pakistan which want that Kashmir must be non-Muslim free, to further its anti-India activities in Kashmir. This is an off shoot of a bigger plan which took its birth with the Jammu and Kashmir getting independence from the Maharajas rule in 1947. At that point of time it was the Kashmiri Pandit in the valley which was the eyesore for making Kashmir valley purely a province of Muslims only, thus overriding the balance of Jammu Hindus with such attempts, since Jammu was an integral part of the bigger Jammu and Kashmir. Kashmiri Pandits return to valley is now a proverb, loaded with grammatical euphoria. This proverb is in rotation now almost in synonymous almost with the sad times of the genocide followed with the mass forced exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley. The verbose of captioned terminology used by various authorities that matter both at the level of government of India or the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, are most of the times so heartening that one feels that the KPs are going to the Valley back as the heroes of a war-torn film and are getting adorned with various prizes of precious deliveries. To quote one in this regard is the prime minister’s package for the Kashmiri migrant employees. But, the saddest part of this bestowment of a so-called super favour, as per the authorities in power, to the Kashmiri Pandit migrant employees, it has almost ceremoniously become death knell for the migrant employees. In turn it is a guided introductory informational missile for the KPs not to ever think of returning to their homes and hearths snatched away from them under a well-designed criminal conspiracy hatched in Pakistan under the guidance of ISI in the name of Jehad in Kashmir. This conspiracy of evicting the KP’s from Kashmir along with their genocide has apparently a hidden go ahead from most of the fanatic Muslims of Kashmir believing in the establishing of ‘Nizam-e-Mustaffa’, the pure Islamic rule in Kashmir. Unfortunately the concept of Islamophobia was always a ring desire of almost each and every Muslim of Kashmir, right from the day when the power got transferred to National Conference in 1947, after the same was snatched away from Maharaja Hari Singh under the well planned conspiracy hatched by the prominent leaders of ‘Quite-Kashmir-Movement’, with the sorrowful blessings of most of the then congress leadership of India which was led by Nehru, except Sardar Patel. Kashmiri Pandit has thus been an eyesore in Kashmir ever since emergence of so called ‘Naya-Kashmir’ under the partisan leadership of Sher-e-Kashmir Sheikh Mohmad Abdullah. He remained a ‘Cheshm-e-Chirag’ the golden eye of Nehru to rule Kashmir from 1947 to 1953. The rigmarole about the duping the KPs of their fundamental right to live in Kashmir with dignity and honour, started in this period only, when the exodus of KPs started from Kashmir. So it is a process which was well defined and thought of by the Islamic fundamentalist snow having captured the sentimental aura of Kashmir under the big psyche of making Kashmir a purely dominated place of Kashmiri Muslims. Sheikh’s rule in 1947, embedded of seeds of ‘Pseudo Secularism, viz half truths about the real concept of true secularism’, in Jammu and Kashmir, for which the main suffering population of Jammu and Kashmir were the Kashmiri Pandits. It was in this time only when the Land to Tiller laws were enforced which in particular made Kashmiri Pandits the main targets as most of the Kashmiri Pandits were well established ‘Zamindars’ and their agricultural lands were snatched from them and given to the tillers who were Muslims, with a biased base of communal tinge. Apart from this enough of partialities occurred during that time when KPs were refused proper representations in the government jobs, educational trainings, etc. This is the period when the first mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits occurred towards the plains, for earning their bread and butter with dignity and honor. Subsequent governments in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir followed suit to destabilize the base of the KPs from the valley when mass exoduses of KPs took place from time to time, thus limiting the population of KPs to just a few lakhs in Kashmir. With the advent of terrorism the KPs became the specific targets, when on September 14, 1989, Pandit Tika Lal Taploo, who was a prominent leader of KPs, was murdered by the JKLF in Srinagar. Prominent lawyer Prem Nath Bhat was gunned down on 27th December-1989 in South Kashmir. Pt Nilkanth Ganjoo, an imminent judge who had sentenced Maqbul Bhat to death, was shot dead, when other prominent Kashmiri Pandits of big repute were also killed brutally. Prominently several intelligence officers were assassinated, over the course of January. On February 2, 1990, Satish Tikoo, a young Hindu Pandit social-worker was murdered near his own house in Habba Kadal. On February 13, 1990, Lassa Kaul, Station Director of Srinagar Doordarshan was shot dead. This is only a small tale of KPs who were killed brutally, because of being Kashmiri Pandits. The worst carnages of genocide of Kashmiri Pandits occurred in March 1997, when terrorists dragged out seven Kashmiri Pandits from their houses in Sangrampora village and gunned them down. It was followed by killing about 23 Kashmiri Pandits, including women and children, in 1998, when they were shot in cold blood in Wandhama Village. Again, In March 2003, about 24 Kashmiri Pandits, including infants, brutally shot dead in Nadimarg Village. Where is the appropriate security apparatus for the protection of the life of the non-Muslim employees and the Kashmiri Pandit migrant employees serving in Kashmir, when they are prone to any terror attack, due to their nude exposure to service conditions of their employment circumstances. With their conditions of appointment in the government sector, a stern barrier has been kept that such migrant employees shall have to work in the valley only. In the event of their abstaining from such duties due to terror threats etc, they will be dismissed from their appointments. Such migrant employees cannot be transferred outside the Kashmir province under any circumstance, which is a virulent condition in their appointment in the valley. These Kashmiri Pandit employees serving in the valley are living like slaves at the mercy of their own fates when the security cover provided to them is a general security cover, which is for names sake only. What is the government doing? It is being run by bureaucrats, who are least bothered about the safety of such people. The service conditions of the migrant employees need extra modification to make their postings in clusters in grouped conditions with an extra ordinary security cover. This alone will save them from the bullets of the terrorists who are being used as tools by the over ground forces which include most of the civilian population for their personal and individual interests. Some amongst them do not want KP employees back so that their booty in the administration is shared by anyone else other than these silent abettors to such acts of terror and murders. Same is the case with the other sections of such persons who have grabbed KP’s lands and properties at tiny and shoddy prices and are under a dormant fear that they shall have to return these properties along with penalties. Some of these persons have now become so much fanatic not to tolerate a KP considering him as an enemy of Islam. But where is the government. Why cannot it be curbed? Tall slogans and claims of normalcy is a virtual dream to fulfill the false egos of government for public consumption when the situation on ground is absolutely different. Let the Government act and save the innocents as pigeons before cats.
(The author is a Chartered Consultant Civil Engineer, who loves his Motherland Jammu & Kashmir).
