Author: PTI
Publication: The Times of India
Date: April 19, 2003
URL: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=43857827
Kashmiri Pandits on Saturday expressed
disappointment over Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee "ignoring" Nadimarg
massacre, which claimed the lives of 24 members of their clan a month ago,
in his speech on Friday.
"A great tragedy had struck the
Pandit community in the Nadimarg carnage by Pakistani militants, but not
a single word of sympathy came from the Prime Minister in his speech,"
All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference, General Secretary Hira Lal Chatta
said.
Alleging that it was a "non-issue"
for Vajpayee, he said, "the Prime Minister deliberately ignored making
any reference to Nadimarg in a bid to please separatists backed by Mufti
government".
NC leader and former MLC Bhushan
Lal Bhat said, "Vajpayee should have spoken on the Nadimarg masacre so
that it could give courage to those still living in the Valley."
Prime Minister had no words of
sympathy for the Nadimarg victims or the Pandit migrants because it was
the Centre's and state's strategy to show that everything was well in Kashmir,
alleged Ashwani Kumar, president, Panun Kashmir.
He said, "both of them are befooling
the national and international community."
T N Khosa, president of the Kashmir
Pandit Sabha, charged Vajpayee with having forgotten the massacre of Pandits
while advocating the cause of Hindus in his political career of over 40
years.
