There has been an uproar over a tweet by the Kerala Congress regarding the film ‘The Kashmir Files’ on the displacement of Kashmiri Pandits. In response to Kerala Congress’s ‘fact check’ tweet on exodus of Kashmiri Pandits, The Kashmir Files director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri has shared a letter from former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Sharing Indira’s letter, he wrote, “Dear Rahul Gandhi ji, your grandmother had a different opinion.” The film The Kashmir Files, which released on March 11, claims to show the plight of Kashmiri Pandits during the exodus in the late 1980s. However, the Kerala unit of the Congress alleged that now the number of Muslims killed in the Union Territory is more than the Kashmiri Pandits who have been victims of the terror attack.
Vivek Agnihotri has shared Indira Gandhi’s letter on Twitter which she sent to Dr. Nirmala Mitra, who lives in the US. The letter was written in December 1981. In the letter, Indira Gandhi wrote, “I understand your concern. I am also sad that neither you who were born in Kashmir nor I, whose ancestors come from Kashmir, both cannot buy even a small piece of land in Kashmir. But at the moment, the matter is not in my hands. I can’t do what is needed to fix this issue right now because both the Indian press and the foreign press are showing my image as a domineering authoritarian.”
He further said, “Kashmiri Pandits and Buddhists are being treated very unfairly and discriminated against in Ladakh.” Let us inform that before this letter was shared by Vivek Agnihotri, the Kerala unit of Congress had made a tweet expressing dissatisfaction with the film. Kerala Congress tweeted: Facts about Kashmiri Pandits: It was the terrorists who targeted the Pandits. In the last 17 years (1990-2007), 399 Pandits have been killed in terror attacks. The number of Muslims killed by terrorists in the same period is 15,000.