After twenty-four years of repeated supplication by the extirpated Kashmiri Pandit community, the Union Home Ministry has formally conceded that the State Government is evading a clear reply to their complaints of encroachment/ grabbing of landed property and shrine assets. How come the Home Ministry now stumbled on this reality after turning deaf ear to the issue for 24 years? Now, a low ranking officer in the Ministry has decided to send a Parliamentary Panel to collect information in the case from the affected Pandit IDPs. What an eye wash and what a hoodwinking of an oppressed displaced community. Not satisfied with hurting them all these two decades and half by trivializing their exodus, the Home Ministry is now rubbing salt into their wounds by asking them to prove that their properties, lands, orchards, houses, shops, business establishments everything has been vandalized. The extirpated community has submitted reports of land grabbing instances and Government’s connivance at it to the authorities from time to time. Now, the Union Home Ministry, instead of performing its constitutional duty, is trying to pass the buck to them and thus bring them into another bout of direct confrontation with the State Government, whose attitude in this case is more than what is known or said. The fundamental question is that the Home Ministry should set up an impartial inquiry into the rise of terrorism and radicalism and the circumstances in which the small religious minority was forced out of its ancestral habitats. This inquiry will lay bare the consequences of extirpation.
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