IRONY: Some Indian leaders want Kashmir but not Kashmiris, says top Indian leader
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NEW DELHI - Following the Pulwama attack and the alleged targeting of Kashmiris in many areas across the country in the days that followed, former finance minister and senior Congress leader, P Chidambaram today said, "Some people want Kashmir to be part of India but don't want Kashmiris to be part of Indians."
Slamming Meghalaya Governor, Tathagata Roy, for his remark on Twitter, calling for the boycott of Kashmiri products and visiting the state as tourists, Mr Chidambaram said, "The irony of the situation is depressing."
"The 'Statue of Unity', the 182-metre statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, located near Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat, watches over the governor of Meghalaya and others who seem to think that Kashmiris have no place in India," Mr Chidambaram said in a scathing comment on social media. link link
link Sardar Patel, India's first home minister, is known as a unifier of the country and is credited with merging over 560 princely states into the union of India.
There have been reports since the Pulwama attack, which killed 40 CRPF soldiers, about Kashmiri students being targeted in Dehradun, Jammu, Kolkata and Muzaffarnagar and other places, forcing some of them to leave work and go back to Jammu and Kashmir.
National Conference chief and former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah in an emotional address today, alleged that the "entire Kashmiri community is being targeted.
