Srinagar, Sept. 7 -- There is perhaps no political party in India that has spoken about the suffering of Kashmiri Pandits as consistently, emotionally and emphatically as the Bharatiya Janata Party. For decades, the community's displacement has occupied an important place in the BJP's political vocabulary. Its leaders have spoken about our exodus, our abandoned homes, our temples, our killings and our right to return.

The BJP has not merely acknowledged the Kashmiri Pandit tragedy. It has also carried that tragedy to the rest of India - overtly through election speeches, parliamentary interventions, rallies, documentaries, commemorative events and repeated references to the exodus; and covertly by allowing the community's suffering to fu...