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Kerala Congress claims less then 400 people were killed in Kashmiri Hindu genocide, deletes tweet later

March 14, 2022
The Commune

The official Twitter account of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee had tweeted that less than 399 Kashmiri Pundits were killed in the valley in 1990 which led to the exodus of Hindus. The party also claimed that more than 15,000 Muslims were also killed due to terrorsim.

However, the above tweet is now deleted realising that it was half-truth. The Kerala Congres was trying a false equivalence by saying that not only Hindus but also Muslims were victims, which is true but not in the context of what had transpired in January 1990. 

As usual, the Congress party is trying to discredit the movie The Kashmir Files with its appeasement politics but it is also important that the Congress party did mention terrorism but failed to mention the group or the religion they belonged to.

As the movie got more momentum, efforts are now being made to discredit it because the film accurately shows what actually happened and how the state machinery failed that led to the murder and rape of Hindu men and women.

The Congress party is now in a blame-game mode and instead of acknowledging what injustice had transpired is now trying to blame the BJP and former Prime Minister VP Singh.

The Kerala Congress has also dragged former governor Jagmohan blaming the exodus on him. The tweet reads, “Pandits left the valley en masse under the direction of Governor Jagmohan who was an RSS man. The migration started under the BJP-supported VP Singh government..”

 

The tweet reads, “BJP-supported VP Singh government came to power in December 1989. Pandits’ migration started the very next month, in January 1990. BJP did nothing and continued supporting VP Singh till November 1990,”.

The Kerala Congress instead writes that it was the, “UPA govt built 5,242 tenements for Pandits in Jammu & provided one-time assistance of Rs 5 lakh to each family in addition to student scholarships, assistance to farmers & welfare schemes worth Rs 1,168.4 crore,”.

The Kashmir Files has now put the Congress on the defense because, it now has to deal with the fact that it invited terrorists to sit and dine with its most senior leadership, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. There is a famous photo of Singh with the leader of the JKLK Yaseen Malik who was responsible for killing four Indian Air Force officers.

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