Bengaluru : The government will restore and reopen 50,000 vandalised temples in Jammu & Kashmir, junior Union home minister Kishan Reddy said on Monday. He also said that the Centre is considering elections in the Valley in a phased manner once normalcy returns.
Union Minister G Kishan Reddy in Bengaluru: We have set up committee to survey number of closed schools in Kashmir valley&will reopen them. Around 50,000 temples were closed over the years, of which some were destroyed, & idols were defaced.We have ordered survey of such temples pic.twitter.com/ZzAimqZdsA
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Reddy said the Centre is aware that these temples, defaced and vandalised over decades, needed restoration. “These temples were vandalised when Kashmiri Pandits and Hindus were driven out of the Valley. We’ll do a survey of these temples and reopen them,” he said.
Source : TOI
