"This candid and factual statement vindicates what the internally displaced Pandits have been telling the world from day one of their expulsion from their birth place," Jammu and Kashmir Nationalist Movement (JKNM) Secretary R Razdan said here.
He also expressed satisfaction over the chief minister's remark that he would do whatever was within his power to ensure honorable and safe return and rehabilitation of the community members.
"We consider it as a very important statement to dispel yet another canard that rehabilitation of Pandits in clusters will open the gate for clandestine location of non-state subjects in the Valley," he said.