Karnataka Assembly elections 2023: Here are the 10 key Assembly seats to watch out for

Karnataka goes to the polls on May 8 to elect a new Assembly. While there are 224 seats in the House and the winning side needs to secure at least 113 seats, there are some seats on which everyone will have their eyes glued to. We bring you the 10 most important seats in the state. These seats have heavyweight leaders as contestants and the winners would most probably end up getting important positions in the next government. Also, some of the seats are key battleground constituencies and the results here would give out key political messages for parties.

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SDPI are canvassing at nook and corner of Karnataka, whereas Hindus are happily sitting at home. Please wake up else we will perish.A French journalist is warning kumbakarna Hindus to wake up
From India West California Newspaper March 21, 2022 By AMJAD AYUB MIRZA
(Mirza is a human rights activist from Mirpur in PoJK. He currently lives in exile in the UK)
Kashmir Files’ Reveals Tip Of The Iceberg

The movie ‘The Kashmir Files‘ is a brave attempt to reveal the atrocities committed by the Pakistan sponsored Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front and other Jihadi proxies and with conformity of a significant number of local Islamists in the Valley of Kashmir.

The atrocities were executed against the indigenous Hindu minority living in Kashmir during the 1990 and led to the genocide and forced exodus of nearly 500, 000 Kashmiri Hindu Pandits from the Valley.

However, what the movie reveals is like peeling the first lay of the onion. The genocide of the Kashmiri Hindus, in modern day and age, did not begin in 1990 in the valley. It goes way back to when Pakistan army attacked the independent state of Jammu and Kashmir on Oct. 22, 1947.

At the time of partition of India, Jammu and Kashmir territories occupied by Pakistan today (PoJK) had a thriving Hindu and Sikh population. The table below gives a breakdown of the Hindu and Sikh demography in several districts in PoJK in 1941.

A survey conducted by Snedden and published in 2012 mentions that “there are no estimates of Hindus or Sikhs left today in the region and the entire population is assumed to have either been expelled or killed”.

The report, widely quoted by research scholars, conforms that they were not able to find a single Hindu or Sikh in the entire region of PoJK. It is estimated that around 122, 500 Hindus and Sikhs went missing from PoJK during and after 1947 invasion of PoJK.

Let us not forget that thousands of Hindus and Sikhs had fled the communal riots in Punjab and had seek sanctuary in today’s PoJK towns bordering Punjab. This resulted in the number of Hindus and Sikhs in PoJK in 1947 to swell. For instance, Bhimber received at least 2000, Mirpur 15, 000, Rajouri 5, 000 and Kotli an unaccounted number of Hindu and Sikh refugees.

The Hindu population in Bhimber tehsil was 35 per cent. None have survived the 1947 Pakistan sponsored Hindu-Sikh genocide. But the worst atrocity, to my knowledge, was committed in my hometown of Mirpur where 25, 000 Hindus and Sikhs were rounded up, mutilated, shot and beheaded and our women raped by ‘Allah O’ Akbar’ chanting Pakistan army and religious fanatic members of Lashkar.

To this day Nov 25 is observed as Mirpur (Massacre) Day by the family members of those who were lucky to reach Jammu. On that ill-fated day in 1947 Pakistan army and the mercenary tribal Lashkar entered Mirpur setting on fire several parts of the city, burning down shops and houses of ‘Kafir’.

A couple of days before the fall of Mirpur, a convoy of 2, 500 Hindu and Sikh had managed to make their escape along with the state troops of Jammu Kashmir and reach Jammu safely. Those who were left behind were rounded up and marched to Ali Baig where the invaders said that a Gurdwara had been converted into a refugee camp.

What was thought to be a march to safety soon turned into a death march as the Pakistan army and members of the mercenary Lashkar killed over 10, 000 Hindu and Sikh along the way. They abducted a further 5, 000 of our women most of who were the sold in the bazars of Rawalpindi, Jhelum and Peshawar.

Out of 25, 000 Hindu and Sikh captives, only 5, 000 made it to Ali Baig. However, the killing and rape of the captive men and women continued unabated by their prison guards. Only 1, 600 were later rescued by the International Committee of Red Cross who brought the survivors to Rawalpindi and transferred to…