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NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said Jammu & Kashmir has a special place in his heart since he is a Kashmiri Pandit.
Rahul, who is on a two-day visit to Jammu, said that he feels at home whenever he visits the region due to his Kashmiri roots.
“My family is a Kashmiri Pandit family. A delegation of Kashmiri Pandits met me today. They said the BJP has done nothing for them while the Congress had implemented many welfare schemes for them,” he said.
The former Congress president promised that he will do something for his “Kashmiri Pandit brothers”.
He said that he himself belongs to the Kashmiri Pandit community and feels their pain.
Kashmiri Pandits were forced to flee from the Kashmir Valley to Jammu and other states in the early 90s soon after the outbreak of terror in the region.
Taking a dig at BJP-led central government, Gandhi accused it of making false promises to migrant Kashmiri Pandits.
“A delegation of Kashmiri Pandits told me that a promise of providing Rs 25 lakh compensation has not been fulfilled yet. It was the Congress that announced the compensation for the Kashmiri Pandits,” he said.
The Congress leader said that whenever he comes to Jammu and Kashmir he feels at home.
“I had said in Srinagar that whenever I come to Jammu and Kashmir I feel that I have come home. Yesterday, I had gone to offer prayers at the Mata Vaishnodevi temple (in Reasi district) and I felt at home,” he said.
“Jammu and Kashmir, which was a state, but now is a Union Territory, has a very old relation with my family,” said Gandhi.
On August 5, 2019, the Centre had abrogated the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcated it into Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.
On the first day of his visit to Jammu on Thursday, Gandhi had paid obeisance at the cave shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi after undertaking a 13-km-long foot yatra.
Last month, Gandhi had offered prayers at one of the biggest temples of Kashmiri Pandits – the Mata Kheerbhawani temple in Ganderbal district in the Kashmir Valley.
This is Gandhi’s second visit to Jammu and Kashmir in the last one month, and he has said that he will also go to Ladakh in the coming days.
(With inputs from PTI)
Rahul, who is on a two-day visit to Jammu, said that he feels at home whenever he visits the region due to his Kashmiri roots.
“My family is a Kashmiri Pandit family. A delegation of Kashmiri Pandits met me today. They said the BJP has done nothing for them while the Congress had implemented many welfare schemes for them,” he said.
The former Congress president promised that he will do something for his “Kashmiri Pandit brothers”.
He said that he himself belongs to the Kashmiri Pandit community and feels their pain.
Kashmiri Pandits were forced to flee from the Kashmir Valley to Jammu and other states in the early 90s soon after the outbreak of terror in the region.
Taking a dig at BJP-led central government, Gandhi accused it of making false promises to migrant Kashmiri Pandits.
“A delegation of Kashmiri Pandits told me that a promise of providing Rs 25 lakh compensation has not been fulfilled yet. It was the Congress that announced the compensation for the Kashmiri Pandits,” he said.
The Congress leader said that whenever he comes to Jammu and Kashmir he feels at home.
“I had said in Srinagar that whenever I come to Jammu and Kashmir I feel that I have come home. Yesterday, I had gone to offer prayers at the Mata Vaishnodevi temple (in Reasi district) and I felt at home,” he said.
“Jammu and Kashmir, which was a state, but now is a Union Territory, has a very old relation with my family,” said Gandhi.
On August 5, 2019, the Centre had abrogated the special status of Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcated it into Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh.
On the first day of his visit to Jammu on Thursday, Gandhi had paid obeisance at the cave shrine of Mata Vaishno Devi after undertaking a 13-km-long foot yatra.
Last month, Gandhi had offered prayers at one of the biggest temples of Kashmiri Pandits – the Mata Kheerbhawani temple in Ganderbal district in the Kashmir Valley.
This is Gandhi’s second visit to Jammu and Kashmir in the last one month, and he has said that he will also go to Ladakh in the coming days.
(With inputs from PTI)
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