North Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Friday opened “Nandkishore Temple”. tHe move was to welcome the hindu brethren to return to valley.
The temple was reopened after a gap of more than twenty seven years. On the occasion hundreds of locals gathered and took up cleanliness works in and around the temple in order to send the message of brotherhood.
The temple was closed since 1990 soon after Kashmiri Pandits migrated from the valley.
Kashmiri muslims gathered in the temple and prayed for peace and communal harmony in the State.
“We request Kashmiri Pandits to return to their homes. Before 1990’s we used to share eachother’s joys and sorrows. We were taught by Pandits and were always there for each other in times of need and lived together as one happy family,” a local Muslim Mohammad Sultan said.
“We used to share walnuts, fried fishes during this festival. We are incomplete without our Hindu brothers, and they should return and live among us like we used to live,” Mr Sultan said.
“Since they are not here we came here in the temple and cleaned like they used to do and tried our best to celebrate the festival with the aim of sending message to them to return back this paradise that is incomplete without them,” another local Farooq said.
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