Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 18: Sikh Progressive Front (SPF) today said that the present dispensation in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir is least worried about the fate of the minorities.
Addressing a press conference here today, Balvinder Singh (RTI activist and president SPF) along with other members and Harmohinder Singh (president, Displaced Kashmiri Sikh Conference), said that some SPF members had met the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha on March 4 this year wherein certain important issues pertaining to the Sikh Community were raised with the LG and a memorandum was also submitted to him highlighting long pending issues of the Sikhs of the UT.
Balvinder said some of the important issues highlighted during the meeting include implementation of Minority Commission Act in JK, inclusion of a member from Sikh Community in the PSC, inclusion of Punjabi as an official language in JK, inclusion of Non-Migrant Kashmiri Sikh youths in the special employment drive, etc and the LG had assured the delegation to consider the issues raised and redress them at the earliest.
“However, when after seven months of the meeting we filed an RTI to know the status of the representation and action taken by LG on the said representation so that it could be followed with the concerned departments, we were shocked to read the contents of the response given by PIO Raj Bhawan, Deputy Secretary vide his letter Dated 30.10.2021 wherein it was informed that as per the records available, the LG Secretariat had not received the representation submitted to LG during the meeting,” the SPF president said.
He urged the LG to kindly enquire into the matter so that faith of the people who are desirous of meeting with the LG for redressing the genuine grieavances of their community be restored.
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