Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday accused the BJP of promoting ‘The Kashmir Files’ movie with an impress on the drawing near Assembly polls in Gujarat and Rajasthan, and additionally alleged that an strive has been made within the movie to suppress loads of “harsh truths”.
In his weekly column ‘Rokhthok’ in Shiv Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’, Raut said it was as soon as the BJP’s promise to form determined the return of displaced Kashmiri Pandits to Kashmir, but the same has now not took contrivance no topic the abrogation of Article 370, and sought to perceive whose failure it was as soon as.
Raut additionally labelled Prime Minister Narendra Modi of being the significant promoter of the movie.
Attacking the BJP extra, the Rajya Sabha member requested the NDA constituent what took contrivance to its promise of integrating Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) with India.
Written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri and produced by Zee Studios, the movie ‘The Kashmir Files’ depicts the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from Kashmir following systematic killings of americans from the neighborhood by Pakistan-backed terrorists. Since its originate on March 11, the movie has sparked a debate amongst political parties. Several BJP-dominated states, including Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, like exempted the movie from entertainment tax.
“The story in step with the fleeing of Hindu Pandits in Kashmir, their killings, atrocities inflicted on them and their anger disturbs one’s mind. But what disturbs even extra is (the strive) to divide Hindu-Muslims out of it (the story) again and preserve the upcoming elections,” Raut said.
“The Kashmir file has been opened to preserve the (drawing near) elections in states like Gujarat and Rajasthan,” he alleged.
Raut said that motion photos like ‘The Kashmir Files’ wants to be created, but – he alleged – the agenda of such motion photos has now been to spread hatred and confusion about (political) opponents.
The Shiv Sena leader said the makers of ‘The Kashmir Files’ had earlier produced ‘The Tashkent Files’, whereby, he alleged, it was as soon as implied that entirely the Gandhi household was as soon as to blame for the death of outdated top minister Lal Bahadur Shastri.
“In ‘The Kashmir Files’, an strive has been made to suppress loads of other harsh truths whereas exhibiting merely data. Thirty-two years within the past, the atmosphere in Kashmir was as soon as wrong now not factual for Kashmiri Pandits, but for all, and the Kashmiri Pandits had been essentially the most-affected,” Raut said.
The Rajya Sabha member eminent that Kashmiri Sikhs and Muslims, too, had been amongst these killed in Kashmir at that time, besides Kashmir Pandits.
Raut said that the first political fracture in Kashmir was as soon as of Nationwide Convention leader Mohammed Yousuf Halwai in August 1989. Sooner than that, an attack was as soon as made on the inspector original of police, whereby the officer’s bodyguard was as soon as killed, he added.
“Several such truths are hidden via ‘The Kashmir Files’,” he alleged. Raut said that Kashmiri Pandits weren’t impelled to soar Kashmir for 43 years after the Independence.
He extra added there was as soon as a BJP-supported V P Singh executive on the Centre when the Kashmiri Pandits and Sikhs needed to switch away Kashmir in 1990.
“BJP leader Jagmohan was as soon as the Governor of Kashmir (then). The Kashmir file was as soon as in frigid storage when the Hindus had been death within the Valley and fleeing it,” Raut said, including entirely slack Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray was as soon as voicing toughen for the Kashmiri Pandits at that time.
Raut extra additionally requested the BJP the best contrivance it fashioned a executive with the PDP (in March 2015) “which had shaken hands with militants”.
“These other folks (BJP) did not even condemn the displacement and killings of Kashmiri Pandits at that time,” Raut said.
He requested why had been the BJP ministers in that executive had been tranquil when the PDP had termed 2001 Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru as “freedom fighter” and wondered the killing of terrorist Burhan Wani by security personnel.
Raut additionally requested the BJP what took contrivance to its announcement of integrating PoK with India.
The Shiv Sena leader said Thackeray had ensured five per cent reservation for young other folks of displaced Kashmiri Pandits in scientific and engineering training in Maharashtra and requested why BJP-dominated states never took this kind of name.
Referring to the deaths of 40 CRPF jawans within the 2019 Pulwama attack, Raut said the protection personnel can also merely now not were “pandits” and requested whose fault was as soon as it that they lost their lives within the incident.
“Is now not the file of Kashmir incidents smeared with our blood which means of attacks like Uri, Pathankot to Pulwama?” he requested.
