Srinagar4 hours agoWriters: Rauf Dar
After the continuous killings in the valley, Kashmiri Pandits have started leaving their homes. There is silence in Pandit Colony, Mattan, Anantnag, which was received from the PM package. Daily newspaper While talking to Kashmiri Pandit Ranjan, the astrologer told that 90% of the people have left from the Kashmiri Pandit Colony of Mattan located in Anantnag. The dam of patience of the people has been broken, after which they fled in the night itself.
This colony has been built under the PM package scheme and government employees of the Kashmiri Pandit community live here, but after the killings for the last few days, all have left for their homes. There is a possibility of their return only after the situation gets better.
There are now 10% Pandits left in the colony, who are pleading for protection from the administration. The pundits have demanded that security arrangements should be made to take them to safe places.
Here, in many areas of Anantnag and Kulgam, Kashmiri Pandits have demanded protection from the local administration, so that they can leave the valley and go to safer places. Protests of Pandits have been going on in Kashmir since the assassination of Rahul Bhatt. Avinash, a Kashmiri Pandit living in Anantnag, said that till the security arrangements are not made, arrangements should be made to remove us from here.
The family members of the migrating Kashmiri Pandits told that not only the soldiers of the security forces are safe here, so where will we stay from?
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Avinash, who lives in Mattan Colony, said that there is no environment to live here. We have lost faith in the government.
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