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Srinagar/Jammu, cni BJP National General Secretary Tarun Chugh tore into Umar Abdullah for calling the July 13 rioters “heroes” and comparing the incident to Jallianwala Bagh. Chugh said, “This is not martyrdom. This is a cover-up of Islamist violence. And it’s coming from the same man whose party stayed silent when Kashmiri Pandits were driven out at gunpoint.”

Chugh reminded the country that between 12 and 16 January 1990, more than 1.5 lakh Kashmiri Pandits were thrown out of their homes. Loudspeakers screamed threats. Temples were attacked. Women were targeted. Entire families had to leave everything behind and run. And while that horror unfolded, the same political forces then called Muslim Conference, now National Conference looked the other way.

And now they have the audacity to call rioters “martyrs”? Chugh said, “Umar Abdullah is trying to rewrite history, and he’s doing it by spitting on the memories of victims.”

He called the glorification of Abdul Qadeer, a British agent who incited the 1931 mob, nothing short of a political fraud. “He wasn’t a freedom fighter. He was planted to create unrest. And today, National Conference wants to turn him into a hero just to play the same old game of appeasement,” Chugh said.

He slammed Umar for comparing the incident to Jallianwala Bagh. “That was colonial brutality against unarmed civilians. July 13 was a communal mob trying to burn down order. Don’t insult our freedom movement by twisting facts.”

Chugh said this isn’t just about history, it’s about intent. “This is the same pattern. Downplay Hindu suffering. Celebrate Islamist mobs. Pretend it’s resistance. Then cry secularism.”

He said these games are dangerous. They reopen wounds. They provoke. And they justify the very ideology that led to the ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Hindus. “When you glorify the butchers, you erase the victims,” Chugh said.

He made it clear “We will not let these lies stand. Not when a whole community is still waiting to go back home.”

Chugh said that under Prime Minister Modi’s leadership, the BJP is not here to decorate history. It’s here to tell it like it happened, and to ensure justice, dignity, and return for every displaced Kashmiri Pandit.

“This isn’t a narrative battle. It’s a fight for truth.” cni