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Devotees stage anti-Govt, anti-separatist protests at Kheer Bhawani 6/13/2016 12:05:35 AM Early Times Report Srinagar, June 12: Kashmiri Pandits staged protests at Kheer Bhawani Mela in Ganderbal, 35 km from Srinagar, on Sunday. Scores of migrant Pandiths, who assembled at the shrine, staged anti-government and anti-separatist protests. The protesters including women, said one hand in 1990s they were forced to leave Kashmiri, whereas now, on the other hand, their return was being sabotaged. The protesters said they had no issues with the general public of Kashmir but that the state government and the separatists were sabotaging their return. "We are the permanent residents of Kashmir. We are not people from outside that there should be any issues in our return to homeland. Let the government give us land and we will construct our houses, our flats," the protesters shouted. They said they go by the traditional slogan of Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah on Hindu, Muslim Sikh Itehaad. "Why cannot government give us land and we will return to our homeland," the protesters said adding it would equally benefit the economy of the trouble-torn Valley. "Our return will be beneficial for everyone." They accused the Chief Minister of resorting to "table talk" and doing nothing on ground for their return." The protesters also condemned the stone pelting on devotees in south Kashmir last evening when three women were wounded in attack on their bus. "Don't you people come to Jammu? Do we ever hurt anyone? So why this discrimination with us," the protesters said. They said the government has failed to keep its promises as made with the Kashmiri Pandit community. Thousands of Kashmiri Pandits had thronged the Kheer Bhawani Temple in Ganderbal district to be a part of the annual mela. This year's celebrations had come in the backdrop of rising tension over a proposal to rehabilitate displaced Pandits in separate colonies in the Valley. Earlier, the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti reassured the Pandits that the government was committed to give them full security and bring them back to the valley with dignity. "Kashmir is incomplete without Kashmiri Pandits.... They will be brought back to Kashmir, but first they will be settled in transit accommodation along with other Muslim migrants, after that, it is their wish where they want to live in the valley," the Chief Minister said.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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