PK organizes a meeting In connection with the 37th 'Kashmiri Pandit Holocaust Day'
17/01/2026
Jammu, January 17 (KIP)-In connection with the 37th 'Kashmiri Pandit Holocaust Day', Panun Kashmir organised an important meeting at Jammu today. The meeting was chaired by Kamal Bagati, General Secretary (Organisation) and was attended besides others by H.L.Jalali, J.L.Kaul, P.K.Bhan, K.K.Kaul, Ashok Chrungoo, V.K.Mattoo, Sameer Bhat and Vikram Singh. The senior BJP & KP leader Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo, attended the session as a special guest speaker.
The meeting discussed the current socio-political scenario of the displaced Kashmiri Pandit community and reiterated the resolve of the community to keep the torch of the struggle for existence burning till the goal was achieved. It maintained that the Kashmiri Pandit community was committed to the resolve that it won't forget or forgive what was done to it in the Kashmir valley right from 1986 by the Islamic fundamentalist and radical elements in the valley. The genocide of the community has a background in which the mosques in Kashmir played a devastating role and threatened the minorities with the open slogans of "Raliv-Chaliv-Galiv" on their public address system.
The original question of the resettlement of the Kashmiri Pandit community in the valley remains. There is no doubt that the government of India implemented a large part of the operative part of the historic Margdarshan resolution on 5th August 2019. It was a revolutionary step in the context of Jammu and Kashmir that brought a great positive constitutional, administrative and political changes in J&K sans the resettlement of the exiled Hindu community of Kashmir.
Many important people in the political circles at the national level believe that these changes will be followed by the changes at the levels of social, cultural and demographic balance in the valley as well. They are of the opinion that such changes can pave the way for the resettlement of the displaced Kashmiri Pandit community back in the valley.
The Margdarshan Resolution explains in detail the reasons for the perpetual genocide, agony, distress and repeated exodus of the Hindus of Kashmir. It maintains that the Muslim majoritarianism is inherently communal in nature and refuses co-existence which Kashmir is a glaring example of. For the last seven hundred years of history in Kashmir, the native Kashmiri Pandits were refused co-existence every time in the valley.
In the recent history, it happened in 1931, 1947 and 1986 when the Hindus faced attempts of genocide in which their life, properties and places of worship were attacked mercilessly. The statements issued by certain Kashmir centric political parties in regard to the surveillance campaign undertaken by the government are issued while ignoring the role of mosques in the ethnic cleansing of the Pandits from Kashmir. Had this exercise been done by the government during 1980s, the forced mass-exodus of the Hindus from Kashmir wouldn't have happened.
Panun Kashmir welcomes these administrative efforts of the government and also appeals to the government of India to seriously think about opening a formal dialogue with the Kashmiri Pandit community. On this occasion, we reiterate the demand of Homeland for the displaced Kashmiri Pandits in the valley of Kashmir with the Union Territory status.