Kashmiri Pandits Call for Revolution; Their Expectations from Government in Assembly Elections 2024
Kashmiri Pandits share their insights and expectations as Assembly Elections 2024 approach. In this video, we dive into their views on the upcoming elections and the government's role in addressing their concerns. Discover what key issues are on their minds and how they hope the new government will respond to their needs. Don’t miss this in-depth discussion on a community’s hopes for change and progress in the upcoming elections.
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00:00My name is Chamalal Madhu.
00:02Mr. Madhu, you are a community member here.
00:06What difficulties are you facing?
00:09And what do you want the government to do for your welfare?
00:13All the Kashmiri Pandits who are living here.
00:15I am an individual person.
00:18My wife is with me.
00:20I don't have children here.
00:22We are only two.
00:24I say that ever since I have been here,
00:26I have not had any personal problem.
00:29I don't have any personal problems.
00:32I don't have any problems.
00:34Now, what does the government want regarding temples, etc.
00:37But if they are doing it,
00:39wherever they are,
00:41I have told you that I am taking care of a temple.
00:44I am fighting for that for the last six years.
00:48Since when have you been living here?
00:50I have been here from birth.
00:52I am running an 80th year of my life.
00:57The thing is,
00:59I was a Central Government employee.
01:02They gave me a court recommendation.
01:06Right from March 1990.
01:09I have been retired since 2005.
01:13After that, I have not gone anywhere.
01:17I go to the hospital in the winter.
01:19I go to the doctor for a month or two.
01:22But then I come back.
01:24How should the government think about Sanjeev?
01:27Definitely, it should not be on lips only.
01:30It should be in practical.
01:33On lips, by every government.
01:36There is the previous one, there is this one, there is that one.
01:39They say a lot.
01:41They say a lot, but nothing happens practically.
01:43Nothing is happening.
01:45So, you mean to say that the parties
01:48in the manifesto or during the elections,
01:51they should fulfil those promises?
01:53No, they don't.
01:55Not for us, but for the general public.
01:58Which manifesto has been fulfilled?
02:00They run their own agenda.
02:03To keep their seats tight, they run their own agenda.
02:07Whether it is the centre, or here, or anywhere else.
02:10What else is there?
02:12They tell me which country it is.
02:14In the last 10 years,
02:16roads have been built, this and that.
02:18Roads have been built up to villages.
02:21But where are the basic problems for the people?
02:24Every party has ensured in the manifesto
02:28that the return of Kashmiri Pandits
02:31is at the top in their manifesto.
02:33Do you think they will fulfil their promises?
02:36I don't think so.
02:38I don't think so.
02:40In 1996, when for the first time,
02:43our Farooq Sahib came,
02:45he gave the first statement
02:47that I want to stay on the path.
02:50Now see,
02:52till when he was there,
02:54he had his son with him.
02:56Did he do anything?
02:58Mahmood Bajji came.
03:00Did he do anything?
03:02He says he did everything.
03:04Since 2019,
03:06since the time of 370,
03:08our central government,
03:10the central government is at fault.
03:12The LGBTQ people are at fault.
03:14Tell me, what foolishness is this?
03:17What foolishness is this?
03:20What is your name?
03:22My name is Mahmood Bajji.
03:24Mahmood Bajji,
03:26elections are coming up.
03:28What do you think?
03:30The upcoming government
03:32is making promises,
03:34but all the parties are here.
03:36So what are the issues
03:38that the community in Kashmir is facing?
03:40See,
03:43elections are coming and going.
03:46Yes,
03:48for the time being,
03:50after 10 years,
03:52elections will come again.
03:54But I would also like to tell the people
03:56that the people should also understand
03:58that if we want to develop our area,
04:00then we should choose our own speaker.
04:03It is possible that
04:05the same speaker
04:07can develop that area.
04:09If you want to develop your area
04:11here and there,
04:13then I think that ground
04:15will not work.
04:17Kashmiri Pandits are
04:19only considered as a vote bank,
04:21which is being
04:23discarded after elections.
04:25Yes,
04:27that is what I think.
04:29And this is not something new.
04:31Every political party does this.
04:33They do it everywhere.
04:35It is not only the Kashmiri Pandits.
04:37It happens everywhere.
04:39It is not for everyone.
04:41Everyone has seen it.
04:43It is not for everyone.
04:45It is only for their own agenda.
04:47The people face it.
04:49The poor
04:51are poor.
04:53If Allah or God
04:55wants something,
04:57then maybe he will get it.
04:59But it is very difficult.
05:01It is not so easy.
05:03And a person should get up.
05:05I would also like to tell you
05:07that I was born in the family
05:09of a Kashmiri Pandit.
05:11If Kashmiri Pandits want to come back,
05:13then what can
05:15the majority community do?
05:17What can be the best
05:19reason and viable reason
05:21to bring back Kashmiri Pandits to the valley?
05:23See,
05:25as I said,
05:27the people
05:29who live here,
05:31their desire
05:33can bring back the Kashmiri Pandits.
05:35No matter how powerful
05:37a political person is,
05:39nothing can be done.
05:41We all have seen it.
05:43Secondly,
05:45the power of God.
05:49No one knows
05:51how and when he will change.
05:53That is the ultimate solution.
05:55When God wills,
05:57it won't take long.
05:59What is the biggest challenge
06:01for the Kashmiri Pandit community?
06:05It is a challenging challenge.
06:07Even if he is earning
06:09a good amount of money,
06:11well-dressed,
06:13has his own house,
06:15but his own country is his own country.
06:17For example,
06:19when you go away from your home,
06:21you also feel that
06:23you have to go back.
06:25Same is the case.
06:27We are scattered.
06:31You can see that we are well-dressed,
06:33but we miss our country from within.
06:37This is our merge.
06:41No matter how much
06:43we get outside,
06:45our home is our home.
06:47Every time you come from Noida to Srinagar
06:49and go to her home,
06:51how is the feeling?
06:53I can't express it.
06:55Because I want to thank
06:57the same God
06:59that at least
07:01for the last 25-30 years,
07:03I have been coming here
07:05and I am getting the water
07:07and air here.
07:09I say, God, this is also a lot for me.
07:11If this is really called Kalyug
07:13and it is so difficult
07:15in this world at this time,
07:17if you are giving me this chance,
07:19then this is also a lot for me.
07:21Jai Sharda! Jai Sharda!
07:23I would like to request one more thing.
07:25I would like to request my Kashmiri people
07:27that
07:29our Sharda Mata
07:31is now in Pakistan,
07:33in Jammu and Kashmir.
07:35At the time of 1947,
07:37this area was separated.
07:39So from 1947 to now,
07:41we have a total of 51 Shakti Peeths.
07:43There are 18 Mahasakti Peeths.
07:45So in these 18 Mahasakti Peeths,
07:47there is only one Shakti Peeth
07:49where worship and worship
07:51is not possible.
07:53My name is Babluji Bhatt.
07:55I was a government employee.
07:57I am from the Food and Supplies Department.
07:59But I have been living here for 19 years.
08:01I have been taking care of this temple
08:03and doing worship.
08:05Sir,
08:07what are the problems
08:09of the community here,
08:11the Kashmiri Pandit community?
08:13The problem is that
08:15the non-migrant people
08:17who live here,
08:19the Kashmiri Pandit people
08:21who want to come back
08:23101%
08:25but the reason is
08:27that they do not have a home.
08:29If they had a home,
08:31then by December,
08:33all the Kashmiri Pandits
08:35would come back
08:37to their country.
08:41So what do you think,
08:43what advice would you like to give
08:45to the coming government
08:47for the welfare of the Kashmiri Pandits?
08:49Look,
08:51I am telling you one thing
08:53that if something happens,
08:55it will be seen.
08:57But whatever has been said
08:59in these 35 years,
09:01whatever has been said for us,
09:03whether it was any government,
09:05but they just
09:07made a dialogue,
09:09but no work has been done
09:11on the ground level.
09:13Yes, one work has been done,
09:15some cowhatters of the PM package
09:17have been made by the government.
09:19If there are 6,000 employees,
09:21the cowhatters have been made,
09:23but 2,500 children
09:25live on rent.
09:27So first of all,
09:29if the government
09:31had thought about them,
09:33then maybe the next step
09:35would have been better.
09:37A lot of work has been done,
09:39but a lot more work
09:41is still left.
09:43The entire temple is deserted,
09:45the ashram is deserted,
09:47the temple is deserted.
09:49If the government has done 10%,
09:515%, then 90% of the temple
09:53has not been completed yet.
09:55All of them are deserted.
09:57Your name?
09:59Sandeep.
10:01Sandeep ji, elections are coming
10:03and every party is putting
10:05the return of Kashmiri Pandit
10:07at the top of the manifesto.
10:09How do you see this?
10:11Kashmiri Pandit has become
10:13a toy for every political party.
10:15I remember my name
10:17in the elections.
10:19In the elections, everyone says
10:21that we will bring back the migrants,
10:23we will give them jobs and packages,
10:25but this is just a show.
10:27Practically, we have not seen anything
10:29and there is no hope in this election.
10:31Because the article was
10:33raised five years ago,
10:35elections used to take place
10:37in Kashmir before that,
10:39but Kashmiri Pandit has become
10:41a toy.
10:43We play with our emotions
10:45even today.
10:47Your community has suffered a lot.
10:49In fact, families were split
10:51and scattered.
10:53Do you think that the government
10:55will ever take your rehabilitation
10:57seriously?
10:59If the government would take
11:01the rehabilitation seriously,
11:03especially for the Pandits
11:05who live in Kashmir,
11:07then the Kashmiri Pandits
11:09would not be here.
11:11They would not be on private jobs.
11:13If the government would take
11:15the rehabilitation seriously,
11:17then the 500 people here would
11:19not be on private jobs.
11:21When we applied for 9,000 jobs,
11:23did we not get a package for 500 people?
11:25We are not Indians.
11:27We are not from any other community.
11:29We have a different behavior.
11:31If the government is serious,
11:33then our conditions are not good.
11:35There are many Pandits here
11:37for whom there is no food.
11:39But the government is never serious.
11:41If the government is serious,
11:43then there is no need
11:45to talk about migration.
11:47Can you tell us
11:49about the issue of migration?
11:51I have already told you
11:53that the girls here are unemployed.
11:55I have already told you
11:57that I did not have any issue
11:59with the migrants.
12:01But the people here should also get a package.
12:03The return of Kashmiri Pandits
12:05has always been the agenda
12:07of political parties.
12:09Many elections have been won
12:11and lost over this issue.
12:13But will the parties
12:15move beyond their promises
12:17and manifestos and ensure
12:19safe and dignified return
12:21of Kashmiri Pandits to their homeland
12:23will only be known
12:25when Jammu and Kashmir gets a new government
12:27in October.
12:29With camera person in Fanshawe,
12:31Izhar Ali in Srinagar
12:33for One India.
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