What has peeved the Pandits is the indifference of the BJP ever since its ascendancy and lack of serious attempts to alter its predecessors' approach to resolve core issues like rehabilitation and return of the displaced persons to the Valley.

Though the community leaders avoid a scathing comment on the party but the underlying message conveyed by them clearly reflects a feeling of betrayal: ``We are disappointed by the statements which have been coming from the Centre about the displaced community. We were expecting some drastic measures following the installation of the BJP Government at the Centre. But the status quo continues,'' says the general secretary ofPanun Kashmir, a front-ranking Kashmiri Pandit organisation, Kuldeep Raina, even as he keeps a margin for the political compulsions of the BJP.

But the anger of community members is clear. ``They have deceived us. Even after 100 days in office they have failed to announce a clear-cut policy on the rehabilitation of the displaced Pandits. The worst part is that they have rejected our demand for a separate homeland south of Kashmir,'' fumes Bhushan Lal Bhat, a resident of migrant camp at Muthi.

The members are also bugged by the fact that the ruling National Conference with which they are disillusioned is an ally of the BJP. ``The BJP has made a mockery of its claim that it was against those who had made things difficult for the Pandits. It is high time that the community looks beyond the BJP, politically,'' says a Kashmiri migrant, Anil Tickoo.

The resentment cuts across all migrant camps. Each one has strong feelings against the fact that the BJP coalition's policy is no different from that of previousCongress or Janata Dal regimes.

``It hurts because we perceived BJP to be our party,'' laments a migrant, Chuni Lal Koul.

Interestingly, various front-ranking Pandits' organisations at the time of the Lok Sabha elections had asked the community members staying outside the Valley to vote for the party which had in the past raised their issues vociferously. Even though the organisations had refused to name the BJP as the party `to be voted' but the message to the community was unambiguous. ``We had told the members to vote for the politicians who had raised our issue. And, yes, BJP was the only party that had done it,'' says Raina.

The realisations sinks in -- ``While in opposition they have been lambasting the parties in power for not redressing the problems of migrants but after coming to power, they, too, have adopted an equally paralytic stand,'' says a migrant camp leader in Purkhoo.

This puts into relief the vicious circle of politics -- other political parties are now trying to target the BJP onthe issue and woo the migrant camps.

``We know the members are not happy with the BJP, a party with which the Pandits were deeply associated. We are taking fresh initiative to take advantage of the scenario and try to convince the community members that the party has betrayed them,'' says the general secretary of the Pradesh Janata Dal and in-charge of the party's migrant cell, Dr A K Kharu.

Migrant leaders of various political parties, including the JD and the Congress, have started doing rounds of the migrants camps dotting the outskirts of Jammu and are carrying out a frontal attack on the BJP for its indifference towards the KP problems.