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JAMMU: Provincial Vice President National Conference Jammu Anil Dhar on Monday resigned over the party having ‘lost interest in the cause of Kashmiri Pandits’.
“This was recently highlighted when the leadership said that late Jagmohan, the then Governor of J&K was responsible for exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley in 1990”, Anil Dhar said in his letter of resignation, released to the media and addressed to the party president Dr Farooq Abdullah.
Taking exception to such an accusation, Anil Dhar said the observations of Dr Abdullah were contrary to the fact that ‘it was Pakistan and its proxies which still continue to be responsible for the migration and exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from the Valley”.
Referring to various other statements and utterances from the leadership of the National Conference, Dhar said these do not instill any sense of confidence in the Kashmiri Hindu community, who have faced the worst kind of persecution, genocide and mayhem from the past more than thirty years and have lost their homes and hearths. “In fact of latest statements of Vice President Omar Abdullah reflect communal overtones and at times give a feeling of his bias against the Hindus”, Dhar alleged.
He said he has lost faith in the leadership of National Conference and as such was tendering his resignation from the basic membership of the party and other positions held by him after being associated with the party for 35 years.