Kashmiri Pandits are fighting a lonely battle for justice amid the ruckus over director Vivek Agnihotri’s ‘The Kashmir Files’. Yes, it is true that the film has created a lot of sympathy in the hearts of people towards this community, but the politics being done on their plight is undermining the fight for justice for every Kashmiri Pandit who has been victim of terror bullets.
Be it Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), TRS or Trinamool Congress, this film has become a medium for everyone to throw mud at each other. All the parties are trying to create a particular image for political gains.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi openly praised the film by tweeting and in his address to the BJP parliamentary party on March 16. The Prime Minister even said that some people are trying to defame the film, while the truth has been shown in it.
Several BJP-ruled states including Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Bihar and now Goa have made the film tax-free.
When BJP MLAs made a similar demand in the Delhi Assembly, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal criticized the film being tax-free and said the filmmaker should upload it to YouTube to be shown to all for free.
Amidst thunderous applause from AAP MLAs present in the assembly, Kejriwal targeted the BJP MLAs and said that they are doing the work of putting up posters of the film. He sarcastically asked the BJP MLAs, “Did you come into politics to do this?”
Soon after, the BJP launched a scathing attack on Kejriwal. In the Delhi Assembly, by posting a picture showing Kejriwal and AAP MLAs laughing, BJP general secretary B. Santosh tweeted, “Never forget, these are laughing at those who lost their lives in J&K due to terrorism.. Laughing at the mothers who lost their children.. their parents The children who were killed.. the security force personnel killed.. the women who were bitten.. the children who were shot.. the shameless anarchists.”
Both BJP and AAP are at loggerheads over Delhi Municipal Corporation elections and both are using ‘The Kashmir Files’ as a weapon.
Holding Congress responsible for the plight of Kashmiri Hindus, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in Gujarat, “‘The Kashmir Files’ shows how atrocities and terrorism spread in Kashmir under Congress rule.”
Rahul Gandhi, who claims to be a Kashmiri Pandit, has not commented on the film or even the plight of Kashmiri Pandits. However, several other party leaders have jumped into the fray.
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said in a tweet, “Some films inspire change. ‘The Kashmir Files’ incites hatred. Truth can lead to justice, rehabilitation, reconciliation and peace. Propaganda breaks facts. twists, distorts history to incite anger and incite violence. The leader heals wounds. The preacher takes advantage of fear and prejudices to adopt a policy of divide and rule.”
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, along with his cabinet colleagues and party MLAs, said after watching the film at a multiplex in Raipur on March 16, “The film depicts half-truths and only violence without giving any message.”
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao and several other leaders have criticized the film and the way the BJP is promoting it.
Political parties are taking full advantage of the plight of Kashmiri Pandits, but in reality no one is doing anything to bring them justice. The BJP has been demonstrating the massacre of Kashmiri Pandits to ignite the passion of the majority, but in reality no action has been taken.
Even after 32 years of the massacre, no judicial commission or commission of inquiry was set up to investigate the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits.
In about 95 per cent of violent incidents against Kashmiri Pandits, no FIR was registered and no action was taken where cases have been registered. The BJP-led central government has failed to plan for the return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits.
The plight of the Kashmiri Pandit community is so far only an election issue for the BJP and other parties, but those who talk about humanity and human rights have also failed to pay attention to it.
No human rights organization in the country has raised the issue of this community.
The box office collection of ‘The Kashmir Files’ crossed the Rs 200 crore mark on March 24. It became the highest-grossing film after the pandemic before the release of ‘RRR’.
Producers should definitely be supported and political parties should come forward to get due benefits but for Kashmiri Pandit community it is like relive the same painfully unbearable experience once again.
This is the only struggle of the minority community of Kashmir. The community, whose roots are 5,000 years old, but today they continue to maintain their roots, culture and identity and continue to live in Ganju, Tiklal Taplu, Girja Tikku, Pran Chatta, Neelkanth Ganju, Chunni Lal Shala, Naveen Sapru, Satish Tikku, Bhushan Lal, Omkar Nath is struggling to get justice for the families of Mota, Bansilal Kak, Sheela Kaul..
—AnyTV News
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