Rahul ji, your grandmother felt differently, says Vivek Agnihotri on Kashmiri Files row
India Today
Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri, the director of The Kashmir Files, shared a letter by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on Twitter. In the letter, the former PM acknowledged that the Kashmiri Pandits were being unfairly treated.
In response to the Kerala Congress’s 'fact check' tweets over the Kashmiri Pandits exodus, The Kashmir Files director Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri shared a letter by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi with the caption “Dear Rahul Gandhiji, your grandmother felt differently.”
The Kashmir Files, which released on March 11, claims to show the plight of Kashmiri Pandits during the exodus in the late 1980s. However, the Kerala unit of the Congress alleged that the number of Muslims killed in the now Union Territory was more than the Kashmiri Pandits who became victims of terror attack.
Taking to Twitter, Vivek Agnihotri shared Indira Gandhi’s letter to one US-based Dr Nirmala Mitra. The letter was written in December 1981.
In the letter, Indira Gandhi wrote, “I share your concern. I too am unhappy that neither you who were born in Kashmir, nor I whose forefathers came from there can own a small piece of land or home. But at the moment, the matter is not in my hands and the Indian press, along with its foreign counterpart are so busy depicting me as authoritarian that that makes it all the more difficult to do necessary things.”
She went on to add, “The Kashmiri Pandits and the Buddhists in Ladakh are being very unfairly treated and discriminated against.”
Dear @rahulgandhi ji, your grandmother felt differently. Pl read this letter. https://t.co/7DU2Qmj7E3 pic.twitter.com/Wjyg4GDp34
