Don’t ‘weaponise’ pain of Kashmiri Pandits, says Mehbooba
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday described “The Kashmir Files”, a Bollywood film based on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley in the 1990s, as a “bold” representation of truth, and said it will help make the society aware that such “historical mistakes” are not repeated.
The remarks by Shah came even as the PDP president Mehbooba Mufti, a former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, claimed that the “aggressive” manner in which the Centre is promoting the movie and “weaponising” the pain of Kashmiri Pandits makes its “ill intention” obvious.
After the film’s makers and actors, including Vivek Agnihotri, Anupam Kher and Pallavi Joshi, met him in Delhi, the home minister also said the movie brings out the “unbearable pain and struggle” of the community before the world.
Interestingly, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel invited all the MLAs of the Congress-ruled state to watch the film at a mall in Raipur.