Bengaluru: Post-release of Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri directorial 'The Kashmir Files' based on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from Jammu and Kashmir, political parties are debating over the presentation of facts in the movie besides critiques and audience.  

Responding to Kerala Congress's tweet over the facts on the issue BJP MP KJ Alphons alleged that Congress has hugely distorted versions of the issue. Only BJP has improved the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. 

Alphons said "Congress doesn't understand history, they have hugely distorted versions. Everyone knows that over 1.5 lakh Kashmiri Pandits were driven out on communal grounds, by the ruling dispensation, which was Congress or its supported governments".   

"Congress and its allies created a situation in which the pandits couldn't live anymore; they were murdered, there was a genuine fear for their lives, so they left...things have improved dramatically after the revocation of Article 370", he added

Kerala Congress has listed out 'Facts about Kashmiri Pandits issue'. These points are: 

1.Pandits left the valley en masse under the direction of Governor Jagmohan who was an RSS man. The migration started under the BJP-supported VP Singh government. 

2.After the terrorist attacks, instead of providing Pandits security, BJP's own governor, Jagmohan asked them to relocate to Jammu. A large number of Pandit families did not feel secure and left the valley in fear. 

3.BJP was engineering a Hindu-Muslim divide in the country over the Ram Mandir issue in Ayodhya during the migration. Pandits’ issue suited BJP’s propaganda to create a fake outrage for electoral gain. 

4. BJP-supported VP Singh government came to power in December 1989. Pandits’ migration started the very next month, in January 1990. BJP did nothing and continued supporting VP Singh till November 1990. 

5.Even in the 1948 communal riots after partition, over 1,00,000 Kashmiri Muslims were killed in Jammu, but there were no retaliatory killings of Pandits. Pandits are victims of terrorism like other Kashmiris. 

6.BJP, which sheds crocodile tears for Pandits, did not bring them back to Kashmir or resettle them despite being in power for two terms at the centre and one term in Kashmir. 

7.BJP lied about govt support to displaced Pandit families & claimed credit for Congress's government’s initiatives. UPA govt gave jobs to 15,000 Pandits & recruited 6,000 Pandits in J&K govt. https://telegraphindia.com/india/bjp-government-misleading-nation-for-political-benefits-kashmiri-pandit-leaders/cid/1807489… 

8. UPA govt built 5,242 tenements for Pandits in Jammu & provided one-time assistance of Rs 5 lakh to each family in addition to student scholarships, assistance to farmers & welfare schemes worth Rs 1,168.4 crore.