VHP wants Kalam to visit Jammu camps first

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Publication: The Economic Times
Date: August 11, 2002
 
President APJ Abdul Kalam's plans to visit Gujarat is already taking political overtones with the Jammu unit of the VHP expressing shock over it and urging him to instead go to the refugee camps in Jammu and Kashmir to see the 'plight' of Kashmiri Hindus living there.

In a letter to the President, the organisation's J&K chief Ramakant Dubey said Mr Kalam's visit to Gujarat 'shocked us as you have not thought of visiting our state where Hindu refugees, 50 times more in number than in Gujarat, were hounded out from Kashmir and are living in outside camps in pitiable conditions. "We, on behalf of Hindus of J&K, request you to postpone your Gujarat visit and come to the state's refugee camps and see the plight of Kashmiri Hindu refugees, and thus establish your impartiality and sense of natural justice,' the letter said. - Agencies
 

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