Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Dec 1: All Parties Sikh Coordination Committee today hit out at the Centre and Jammu and Kashmir Governments for allegedly changing the nomenclature of a package for the rehabilitation of minority communities that did not migrate from Kashmir.
‘The people at the helm changed the nomenclature of the package that was approved some years ago for the rehabilitation of people belonging to the minority communities that did not migrate from the Kashmir valley on the behest of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. This was done to benefit a particular community,’ APSCC chairman Jagmohan Singh Raina asserted in a statement here.
‘In the past, the Centre ditched the majority community in the state and denied the youth of jobs in the government sectors. The benefits which should have been given to the members of the majority community were showered on the members of a particular community to which India’s first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru belonged to,’ Raina asserted.
For more than four decades, Raina alleged, the majority community was debarred from benefits and privileges that were due to them. ‘Nehru was responsible and it was repeated by other members of his family including late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. All this was done to please a particular community.
The members of this particular community have been given packages and privileges by the different states in the country, but still they are asking more,’ the APSCC chairman said.
Raina asserted that the Centre is now deliberately repeating the mistakes and this time around the target is the Sikh community that is in minority in the state.
He further alleged that the state government is hand in glove with the Union Government and it is their design to cause miseries to the majority community and also the Sikh minority.
He alleged that the Centre wants the majority community and minority Sikh community to suffer forever in Jammu and Kashmir, adding that the people would stand up to such challenges. New Delhi would, Mr Raina said, repent since the agenda being followed by them is bound to lead to dire consequences.
The APSCC chairman said that the appointment of advisors by the state government is ‘fixed’ and those people are appointed who carry forward the agenda of present central and state governments. Appointment of advisors, he added, most of the time is a ‘futile’ exercise which adds to the chaos as well as confusion.
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