Kashmir Digits

23 BJP workers in J&K have been killed over the past two years in different militant attacks reports revealed.

The reports also reveal that in the last one year 7 BJP workers have been killed in Kulgam alone.

Recently  Javid Ahmad Dar was shot dead in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district; Mr Dar was the party’s constituency in-charge for Kulgam.

“In the last two years 23 BJP leaders or workers have been killed. It is high time for police to provide security and ensure workers’ safety,” Altaf Thakur, the party’s J&K spokesperson, said.

The series of killings, it has been pointed out, coincide with the government’s August 2019 decision to strip Jammu and Kashmir of its special status and divide it into two union territories.

Javid Dar’s killing was the second of a BJP leader or functionary in seven days and third this month.

On Friday a grenade was thrown at the home of Jasbir Singh, a BJP leader from Rajouri district. Six family members, including Mr Singh, were injured and a seventh – a two-year-old child – died.

And two weeks ago Ghulam Rasool Dar, a village sarpanch and a BJP leader from Kulgam district, and his wife were shot dead in a terror attack in south Kashmir’s Anantnag town.

CommentsIn June terrorists shot dead Rakesh Pandita, another BJP leader and a municipal councillor, who was at a friend’s home in Pulwama’s Tral area when three terrorists barged in and opened fire.