Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Nov 12: Panun Kashmir (PK) today reiterated its separate homeland demand for Kashmiri Pandits in Valley and also sought abrogation of State subject laws including Article 370 and Article 35A, calling them “absurd”.
Addressing press conference, Panun Kashmir president, Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo said that the Kashmiri Pandit displaced community continues to live as refugees in their own country. “A serious dialogue process should be initiated by the Government of India for the establishment of a separate Homeland in Kashmir valley as explicitly demanded in the Margdarshan Resolution of 1991”, he added.
“There has to be a full and free flow of the Indian Constitution in the Homeland that needs to be designated as the Union Territory. As the first and primary stakeholders to the land of Kashmir, we need to declare from the land where ‘the ashes of our forefathers and the temples of our gods lay’ that Kashmiri Pandits belong to Kashmir and have an equal stake in Kashmir,” he said.
Chrungoo said the Kashmiri Pandits have clarified that the Article 370 and Article 35A have become an unnecessary baggage of the past errors of the rulers of India and there is a national consensus to review these absurd laws that are in contravention of the fundamental rights guaranteed under the Indian Constitution to the citizens of India. “They should be abrogated under the due process of law as soon as possible and the Constitution (Application to Jammu & Kashmir State) Order 14th May 1954, since was/is an intentional fraud, be also abrogated along with,” he said.
The PK president said that they are of the strong belief and understanding that no Government is mandated to discuss and negotiate the issue of unity and integrity of India and Jammu and Kashmir is no exception in this regard. “The Government needs to make it very clear than to keep the people in dark as it has happened for the last more than six decades. There is an imperative need to restore peace in the Kashmir valley”, he added.
“The Pandit community has all along supported the initiatives that have the potential to restore law and order in the valley. Being the first and worst victims of terrorism, the Pandits want complete finish of terror from the valley. In this context, the appointment of the Centre’s Interlocutor can prove a small window that can pave way for new vistas,” he said.
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