It should not have been cleared for screening: Sharad Pawar on the Kashmir Files
01 Apr 2022 13:00:40
Mumbai, April 1: NCP chief Sharad Pawar called the movie The Kashmir Files as ‘false propaganda’, blaming BJP for ‘creating a poisonous atmosphere’ by using the movie. He added that Vivek Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files movie spreads false propaganda about the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley.
Pawar forgot that Bitta Karate was a local Kashmiri - not Pakistani.
In reality, Islamists had took Kashmir even before Governor Jagmohan reached Srinagar. The targeted killings of Kashmiri Hindus had been going on in pockets before that fateful night in January 1990 and even had continued long after that.
Pawar asserted, “Such a film should not have been cleared for screening. But it is given tax concessions and those responsible for keeping the country united are encouraging people to watch the film that stokes anger among people.”
Pawar then added that though Kashmiri Pandits had to leave the valley, Muslims in the valley were targeted too. He blamed it all on Pakistani terrorists and BJP. He added further that if the BJP govt actually cared for the Kashmiri Pandits, it would have taken steps for their rehabilitation in the valley, not stoke negative sentiments against “minorities”.
Pawar forgot that Bitta Karate was a local Kashmiri - not Pakistani.
Pawar flaked BJP for dragging Jawaharlal Nehru’s name in the controversy. He then used the favourite argument of the Left-liberals on the issue, that VP Singh was the PM and Jagmohan was the governor when the exodus happened. He blamed the then governor Jagmohan who ‘facilitated the departure’ of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley.
In reality, Islamists had took Kashmir even before Governor Jagmohan reached Srinagar. The targeted killings of Kashmiri Hindus had been going on in pockets before that fateful night in January 1990 and even had continued long after that.
In 1993, when Mumbai, was attacked by deadly bomb blasts, Sharad Pawar was CM of Maharashtra. Pawar admitted that since all the blasts had occurred in Hindu majority areas, he had concocted an extra bomb blast, which never happened, at the Muslim majority area of Masjid Bandar in Mumbai.
Pawar added that the reason behind his false claim was he didn't want people to think that only Hindus are being targeted. He had also added that he had deliberately misled people by saying that he had examined the material at the bomb blast sites, and had stated that the material is used by insurgent elements in South India.