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Kashmiri Pandits on Monday dismissed as a "political gimmick" Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah's offer to provide jobs if the displaced people returned to the valley and said they could not become "cannon-fodder" by being lured by such baits.
Rejecting Abdullah's offer, made on Sunday, Panun Kashmir spokesman Ramesh Manvati said, "For the last 12 years, he did not bother to take note of the displaced people's sufferings and woke up only when the assembly elections are approaching."
"We cannot go back given the conditions prevailing in Kashmir. We will go back on our own terms," Kashmiri Samiti president Sunil Shakdher said.
Manvati said no schemes could lure the displaced people and they would return "only when we, and not Farooq Abdullah, determine that the situation is conducive."
PTI
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