Team News Riveting
New Delhi, March 17
Call it ignorant or arrogance, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party (SP) President Akhilesh Yadav has compared the plight of Kashmiri Pandits with the Lakhimpur.
Having faced a defeat in the recently concluded state polls, Yadav said, “If a film Kashmir Files is made, then at least, there should also be film ‘Lakhimpur Files’, where farmers were crushed under the wheels of a jeep,” the SP president told journalists in Sitapur district on Wednesday when asked for his opinion on the Bollywood movie.
In the height of farmers’ agitation against the three farm laws, violence erupted in Lakhimpur Kheri on October 3, 2021 when a jeep, said to be owned by the son of Union minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra, allegedly mowed down four farmers. It however made no sense for the SP leader to compared Kashmir issue with Lakhimpur.
“It shows how illiterate and brainless Akhilesh Yadav is…he seems to be unfamiliar with Kashmir and the inhuman experience of Hindus in the valley from the militants,” a senior office bearer of Kashmir Pandit’s Association told News Riveting. The torture in the big screen has been much more devastating in the real life of Pandits who were forced to leave Kashmir at gun point, he said, adding that the scene was not the same in Lakhimpur.
A few others are comparing Kashmir with other incidents too. Unfortunately, they did not have had the first-hand experience or one-to-one with the militants, the office bearer added. There are many more issues to score over his political opponents but it is unfortunate that a leader like Akhilesh Yadav is undermining the tragic Kashmir issue, he said.
Written and directed by Vivek Agnihotri, ‘The Kashmir Files’ depicts the hardship of Kashmiri Pandits who were forced to exodus from the Valley in the 1990s. Uttar Pradesh was among the first states in the country to make ‘The Kashmir Files’ tax-free. Seven other states — Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Haryana, Goa, Tripura and Uttarakhand.
