It was because of the support of the Congress that Sheikh Abdullah, who was one time an anti-national and would call the congressmen as "worms of a gutter", was reinstalled, in 1975 as Chief Minister. Rajiv Gandhi who had dubbed Farooq Abdullah a pro-Pak and a security threat for the country, entered into an agreement with the same Farooq and installed him as the Chief Minister. K ash mir went in the hands of the subversives because of this policy of "dislodge and install". The seriousness of the situation in K ash mir can be judged by those orders of militants under which people were directed not to pay taxes, not to deposit their money in nationalised banks, outsiders asked to deposit their passports with the militants, shopkeepers having to hoist green flags on their shops and M us lim women being told wear burqas (veils).
Re: K ash mir during Rajiv Gandhi
by delhiblast on Feb 27, 2009 11:51 AM Permalink
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K ash miri H indu were started being pressurised for quitting K ash mir. They started receiving threatening letters. Mr. Jagmohan has made a mention of one such letter:
'We know that you have been living in K ash mir for a long time. You have one mill at Barbarshah and one house at Lal Mandi. You have to leave K ash mir immediately otherwise we will blow up your house and factory. We will blow up your house and hotel in Delhi. We direct you to leave K ash mir immediately, otherwise your children will be harmed. We know where they are studying. We also know it that your daughter was recently married. Stop your trade and quit immediately. We are not threatening you. But this land belongs only to the M us lims because this land belongs to God (Allah). Sikhs and H indu cannot stay here. If you did not accept it, we shall start from your children. Independence of K ash mir Zindabad."
