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.