It is a big lie and an attempt to dwarf the magnitude of importance of a divine place like the Holy Amarnath that the holy place was discovered only in 1850 by a wandering Muslim Sheppard named Buta Malik. Since then Malik's descendants have acted as custodians of the cave and received a percentage of donations from the pilgrims.
Lakhs of pilgrims every year make their arduous trip to the Holy place of Lord Amarnath to seek His divine blessings. The pilgrims start their journey from Srinagar on to Pahalgam and then to Baltal passing through about 22 kms of treacherous trek before they reach the holy shrine. The trek is dangerous from the point of view of harsh climatic conditions as well as threat from terrorists.
In view of the number of deaths of pilgrims over the years and by the subsequent protests of pilgrims for better conditions an inquiry was set up by the home ministry and Mr.Nitish Sengupta was asked to conduct his inquiry and submit his recommendations. As a part of the recommendations of the inquiry, it was proposed to the government that an Amarnath Shrine board be formed and a land of 100 acres be allotted to the shrine board to facilitate better conditions for the pilgrims visiting the Holy Amarnath. After the land was sanctioned by the government, all the local political parties and the anti national elements (separatists) such as the Hurriyat council started spreading rumours and lies in the Kashmir valley such as:
1. The land transferred to the Amarnath shrine is an attempt to change the demographics of Kashmir. ( In true sense, they were the ones responsible for changing the demographics of Kashmir by doing ethnic cleansing and driving out lakhs of Kashmiri Hindu pandits from Kashmir so that it always remains a muslim majority state. - Editor)
2. The forest land given to the shrine would create an environmental disaster as it would involve trees to be cut and the land to be cleared of all the natural resources of the forest. ( This point was put by the seperatists without even studying the facts, the land allocated to the shrine board was a clear open land and was not needed to be cleared of any other natural resources of the forest - Editor)
The separatists saw this as a huge opportunity to fuel their dying agenda of separating Kashmir from India and making it a part of Pakistan as it had a majority of Muslim population. According to the Indian intelligence, the Pakistan army and the ISI ( pakistan’s intelligence service ) are also assisting the separatists in escalating the tensions so that they arrive at their desire objective of separating Kashmir from India.
In view of the above tensions, the anti national political parties like PDP and National conference saw this as an opportunity to gain political mileage and put pressure on the congress government in the state to withdraw the land which was legally allotted by the government to the devotees after approvals from all the concerned legal institutions after years and years of consultations. For years the residents of Jammu have been deprived of all the basic amenities and It’s not the first time that people of Jammu are facing discrimination, they have been neglected by Kashmiri politicians for the last 60 years. But after the incidents like the above, Jammuites have realised that if they want to live with self-respect in Jammu, they have to fight for their rights. It is with this resolve that they came to the streets by proudly holding the tricolor in their hand and protesting against the discriminatory act of the government and also to seek the right of every Hindu to practice his faith without being harassed by the government’s minority appeasement policy and to give back their land which was rightfully awarded to them in the first place.
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