Nagpur: Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Monday said the recently-released film ‘The Kashmir Files’ was creating a situation that could cause great harm to the country’s social unity and integrity.
The film, which set around the exodus of Kashmir Pandits from Kashmir, has become a huge box office success, though opponents have accused the makers of exhibiting communalism in the way the narrative is framed.
Speaking with journalists on the sidelines of the 23rd CPI(M) Maharashtra State Conference here, Yechury said his party was the first to speak out on the plight of Kashmiri Pandits in 1990, with its MLA raising the issue at the time in the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly.
He said people of Kashmir had preserved the properties of Kashmiri Pandits and, citing an RTI reply given by Srinagar police, informed that 89 Kashmiri Pandits have been killed by militants since 1990, while the figure was 1,635 for people of other faiths.
“The Kashmir Files is trying to create a situation that can cause great harm to the country’s social unity and integrity,” he said.
