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Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram has reportedly lamented the fact that some people want Kashmir to be part of India but don’t want Kashmiris to be part of Indians. “The irony of the situation is depressing. We want Kashmir to be part of India, but we do not want Kashmiris to be part of Indians,” he said in a tweet.
The former home and finance minister also took a dig at Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy’s statement that he favoured a call for the boycott of Kashmiri products and visiting the state as tourists.
The irony of the situation is depressing. We want Kashmir to be part of India, but we do not want Kashmiris to be part of Indians.
— P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) February 21, 2019
Chidambaram in another tweet said the ‘Statue of Unity’, the 182 metre statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, located near Sardar Sarovar Dam in Gujarat, watches over the governor of Meghalaya and others who seem to think that Kashmiris have no place in India.
The Statue of Unity watches over the Governor of Meghalaya and others who seem to think that Kashmiris have no place in India.
— P. Chidambaram (@PChidambaram_IN) February 21, 2019
Patel, India’s first home minister, is known as a unifier of the country and is credited for merging over 560 princely states into the union of India.
There have been incidents of alleged threats to Kashmiri students and people studying or working in Dehradun, Jammu, Kolkata and Muzaffarnagar and other places, leading to some of them leaving places to go return to their homes in Jammu and Kashmir.
