The All Parties Migrants Coordination Committee (APMCC), organisers of the controversial Kousar Nag yatra, alleged on Monday that a diverse group of Kashmiri politicians, in tandem with a section of the intelligentsia, had joined hands to sabotage the pilgrimage to drive a wedge between communities and pursue vested interests in the coming Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
APMCC chairman Vinod Pandit said at a press conference in Jammu that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, his National Conference (NC) “besides some mischief-mongers among separatists, mainstream political parties, media and intelligentsia” were attempting to satisfy their vested interests in opposing the pilgrimage of a small group of 40 Pandits from the Kulgam side of the Valley. “It is the Kashmiri Pandits, not the pollution or so-called ecological balance or water resources, which is the real problem for these unscrupulous politicians,” Mr. Pandit said.
