Kashmir Files: From the Other End of the Telescope.
SS; on Whatsapp: There's, at least, one inaccuracy, when the exodus happened, it was Farooq Abdullah in the seat of Chief Minister.
The day Jagmohan was sent as the Governor, he resigned and Jagmohan would take over the reins. That was Jan. 19 2000. ( https://www.indiatoday.in/india/video/kashmiri-pandits-exodus-did-not-take-place-during-my-rule-farooq-abdullah-1928286-2022-03-22 Farookh Abdullah: The exodus didn't take place during my rule. It took place when Delhi govt was there and their Governor was in Kashmir. Farooq Abdullah had already resigned long before that." Ed) )
( Jagmohan took office 19th January 1990.. The same night the major exodus took place.)
Jagmohan would, almost immediately, impose a reign of bloody terror, the most outrageous demonstration was spraying of a peaceful funeral procession with bullets by the security forces.
Under the impact of the consequential din, Jagmohan would soon be given the order of the boot (26th May, 1990) and the tragic tales of the Kashmiri Pandits got drowned.
Residents recall Jagmohan Malhotra's 1990 reign with fear, horror Mir Farhat June 26, 2018 https://www.firstpost.com/india/governors-rule-in-jammu-and-kashmir-residents-recall-jagmohan-malhotras-1990-reign-with-fear-horror-4602271.html In 1990, militancy was at its peak in Jammu and Kashmir. Pro-freedom sentiment among people was overwhelming. The state was being ruled by the National Conference (NC) led by then chief minister Farooq Abdullah. As militants gained public support in the Valley, New Delhi felt Jammu and Kashmir was slipping away from its control. It needed measures to curb the full-blown secessionist movement and public support. When the political and security situation became extremely turbulent, New Delhi, under the stewardship of then prime minister VP Singh, dispatched Malhotra to the state. Late PDP patron Mufti Mohammad Sayeed was then India's home minister. Abdullah, who opposed Singh’s decision, resigned from the state Assembly. Governor’s Rule was imposed in Jammu and Kashmir yet again.
"The first impression among people of Jagmohan’s arrival to Kashmir in January 1990 was of fear and horror," said Bashir Ahmad, a resident of Sopore in north Kashmir. "Jagmohan was seen by residents through the prism of the 1976 Turkman Gate massacre in Delhi where local residents protesting the demolition of a Muslim colony in the city were killed.” In Jammu and Kashmir, Jagmohan’s second stint in power is remembered as being synonymous with repression, “hate” and “massacres”. “He created hatred against himself among the masses and gave a very bad impression of Governor’s Rule in Jammu and Kashmir. He gave the security forces a free hand to deal with militants and the people,” Hamidullah Ahmad of south Kashmir’s Anantnag alleged.
Two days after Jagmohan took over, the state witnessed the Gaw Kadal massacre in which 50 to 55 people participating in protests against the governor and the central government were killed. Days later, on 25 January, 1990, 21 civilians were killed by the Border Security Force (BSF) in Handwara.
On 1 March, 1990, around 33 people were killed at Zakoora, Tengpora, and on 21 May, 1990, at least 50 people were killed when the BSF fired at the funeral procession of Mirwaiz Maulvi Mohammad Farooq near Srinagar’s Islamia College. This finally forced New Delhi to call Jagmohan back and he resigned as governor.