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Displaced Kashmiri Pandits meet Modi, pledge support in Lok Sabha polls

New Delhi: Stating that a sustained effort was on to "wipe them off the memory" of Kashmir, a delegation of Kashmiri Pandits today met Narendra Modi and pledged their support for him to "liberate the

PTI PTI Updated on: January 19, 2014 19:56 IST


Saying that they recognised the nature of the labour required to enable Modi to succeed, the delegation led by KN Pandita said Kashmiri Pandits were putting their services at his disposal.

Noting that a sustained effort was on to wipe them off the civilisational memory of Kashmir, they said that the names of the places of heritage like Shankarcharya Hill and Hari Parbat had been changed "illegally".

"Property, including those belonging to temples and shrines, is being encroached upon, not only by private persons but also by the government itself in the name of public purpose," they said.

Political, social and civil society organisations, which claim to be secular, were in reality maintaining a criminal silence to their plight, they charged.
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