It all started with an innocuous tweet addressed to Manish Tewari that said Congress never took care of Hindus citing the example of Kashmiri Pandits and their exodus. What ensued, is a perfect example of how blatantly and brazenly the Congress party and its members lie, concoct, even whitewash a genocide, for their own petty political ends.
In his first tweet, he tries to indict Jagmohan, the then governor of Kashmir and VP Singh for the exodus and gets called out by Aarti Tikoo, who is herself a Kashmiri Pandit and Senior Assistant Editor at the Times of India.
True about VP Singh coalition supported by BJP & Left. What’s not mentioned here is that Kashmiri Pandit targeted killings & exodus began before Jagmohan arrived in J&K where NC & Congress were allies.
— Aarti Tikoo Singh (@AartiTikoo) November 12, 2017
Once again, even after being called out, Manish Tewari keeps at it. Trying to shift blame.
–@AartiTikoo Targeted killing of Hindus were an ISI project executed in Punjab between 198-1989. They came to J&K in 1989. Pak tried to create a Hindu exodus in Punjab too but failed. Blaming Cong-NC not fair Killing of Hindu leaders in Punjab have started again at ISI’s behest https://t.co/Ftt4WEN05s
— Manish Tewari (@ManishTewari) November 12, 2017
If almost exonerating the Islamic extremists and terrorists, peddling the ‘Jagmohan did it’ lie, and blaming the BJP wasnt enough, Manish Tewari went a step further and almost blamed Kashmiri Pandits for “leaving” Kashmir by comparing the exodus to that of Punjab.
–@AartiTikoo one thing that has always intrigued me is – and I can say this as a victim of Terrorism why did the Punjabi Hindu stay & the Kashmiri Pandits leave?. I mean no disrespect to either the Kashmiri Pandits or their tribulations and the enormous loss they have suffered https://t.co/yaBCIOgtde
— Manish Tewari (@ManishTewari) November 12, 2017
The backlash on Twitter was rather enormous with many flabbergasted with Manish Tewari’s blatant genocide denial. Scientist Anand Ranganathan reacted by saying it was one the saddest days to see this comparison being made. He then put forth stats that elucidated the difference in the two tragedies.
Have seen many sad days in my life but none as sad as this, when our leaders ignore history and draw a brutal & cruel false equivalence.
Punjab (1985): 6.70 million Hindus
Kashmir Valley (1990): 0.15 million PanditsPandits were HELPLESS VICTIMS. Of swift and unforgiving TERROR pic.twitter.com/eQQZLyBmcf
— Anand Ranganathan (@ARanganathan72) November 12, 2017
Even Tajinder Bagga, who is the BJP Delhi spokesperson lashed out at Manish Tewari for his hate filled ignorance.
Manish Tiwari u r right it was Pakistan ISI plan,but the ques is who was implementing that plan in India ? Ur own Indra Gandhi created Bhindrawala & other Khalistani terrorists who killed Hindus. Bhindrawala campaigned for ur Party in Punjab https://t.co/zvtwghs7ik
— Tajinder Bagga (@TajinderBagga) November 12, 2017
A Twitter user that goes by the handle @OnlyNakedTruth put out a threat and held back no punches. Here are his tweets :
The difference was that Khalistani militancy was a Pak import. The society still had deep Hindu Sikh ties unlike Kashmir.
— Roshi CBG-san (@OnlyNakedTruth) November 12, 2017
Since @ManishTewari would only believe firangs (given his masters) here’s a clip from NYT about Hindus fleeing Punjab during militancy https://t.co/4pbcguHtqX
— Roshi CBG-san (@OnlyNakedTruth) November 12, 2017
Thankfully some papers still have archives. Here is an old report in Wash Post about Hindu exodus from Punjab. Would @ManishTewari holistically agree? https://t.co/AYeqdxEL52
— Roshi CBG-san (@OnlyNakedTruth) November 12, 2017
We don’t think Manish Tewari would ever retract a statement that attempted to whitewash genocide and state inaction for petty political gains, but we know this statement would ring through the years, all the way to 2019.
