Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Sept 23: SOS International chairman, Rajiv Chuni has demanded reservation of at least eight seats for PoJK displaced people (DPs) in J&K Assembly and creation of battalions of Mirpur-Muzaffarabad-Poonch Scouts with PoJK refugees for deployment along LoC.
Addressing a seminar on ‘India-Pakistan Partition, the background of creation of PoJK and role of politicians and local people’ here, the refugee leader claimed that about 17 lakh PoJK refugees live in J&K.
“Empowering PoJK refugees politically will enable them to expose China and Pakistan globally,” Chuni said adding: “Our people were looted and brutally killed. Our sisters had to face mental trauma. The genocide was inflicted upon us and our race was eliminated. Pakistan should be exposed for its misdeeds and it can be achieved if the real victims of this genocide, PoJK refugees are empowered politically in J&K assembly.”
He said that government of India should accept the recommendations of Delimitation Commission, Wadhwa Committee and Interlocutors while considering the genuine and legitimate demand of PoJK refugees for reserving eight seats for them in J&K legislative assembly.
Chuni strongly pitched for giving due recognition to the Domicile Certificates issued to all PoJK refugees living in different parts of the country, other than J&K and expressed concern over denial of job opportunities to PoJK refugees living in UP, Bihar and Delhi having Domicile Certificates of J&K.
He said that POJK refugees have not only lost an area to Pakistan but they have lost their rich culture and heritage also. The refugee leader also said that Displaced Persons Relief and Rehabilitation Act 1954 is not applicable to PoJK refugees on grounds that the PoJK refugees would be sent back after vacating the land from the occupation of Pakistan.
Anant Shri Vibushit Swami Amritanand Dev Tirath Ji was organizer of this session. On this occasion Chuni along with Sunil Pandey and Ravi Shanker were felicitated.
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