Farooq Abdullah, NC chief and former J&K CM, urges displaced Kashmiri Pandits to return home, assuring them that the National Conference government is not their enemy. His party, in alliance with Congress, recently won J&K assembly elections, with significant voter turnout from displaced Pandits. In the years right after Kashmiri Pandits started leaving, the government put out an estimate of 50,000 families who had left Kashmir because of militancy.