The BJP’s Jammu and Kashmir unit condemned the use of force against Kashmiri Pandit employees protesting the killing of Rahul Bhat and said Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has a big announcement to make concerning them.
Bhat, who had got the job of a clerk under the special employment package for migrants in 2010-11, was gunned down by terrorists inside the tehsil office in Chadoora town of central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Thursday.
Protests were held at several places in the Union Territory over the killing as well as the “failure” of the administration to provide security to Kashmiri Pandit employees. Police used batons and tear smoke shells at Sheikhpora in Budgam on Friday to quell the protest.
The LG on Sunday ordered an inquiry into the use of force against the protesters.
The BJP claimed that a sense of insecurity was increasing among the Kashmiri Pandit employees due to a number of their colleagues being killed in the Valley in the past year.
After meeting Sinha at the Raj Bhawan in Srinagar over the issue, Jammu and Kashmir BJP chief Ravinder Raina along with General Secretary (Organisation) Ashok Kaul visited the Budgam Migrant camp to pacify the Kashmiri Pandit employees demanding transfer outside Kashmir.
