Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 11: While out rightly rejecting the return of displaced Pandits to clusters at district headquarters in Kashmir Valley, Roots In Kashmir (RIK), a displaced youth initiative today said that the return should be in such a way so that the community does not face the displacement again.
The RIK is for the settlement of the displaced community in a single satellite city / twin city within Valley, its J&K head Vir Saraf told reporters here along with S N Tickoo and M K Raina well known social activists.
Accusing the Government of misleading the community with its so-called return formula, he said that the Government till date has not come out with any road map on return which indicates it was not sincere in taking the Pandits back.
Referring to recent statement of Chief Minister, Saraf said KPs want passage of the Shrines Bill so that it becomes the law. By merely saying that the Bill is put to vote, NC tries to play politics ahead of the general elections, he added.
Admitting that vote is a great power in democracy, he reminded Chief Minister that it was the Government which in connivance with Election Commission have and are creating impediments to stop KPs from exercising their franchise.
Saraf said the Chief Minister has penetrated into the community recently while during last five years of his rule he ignored the community altogether. Seeing that the elections are round the corner, he came to address the KPs like other political leaders.
Taking serious exception to CM’s statement that KP leaders who do not know the pain of migration and staying in guest houses can’t be called the community representatives, Saraf said that KP leaders living in any corner of the world felt the pain of their brethren and were concerned for their cause unlike the Government which mocked its pain repeatedly.
He however appreciated the CM for admitting that Pandits were forced to leave under threat of gun and termed it his positive gesture as old argument of NC leaders was that the ex Governor of the State was instrumental in exodus of KPs.
He however wanted to know from the Chief Minister that why the Coalition Government is silent on NHRC report which termed happenings to KPs in 1989-90 akin to genocide. Moreover why CM is silent on interlocutors report which recommended twin city on the name of Nav Srinagar be built for the displaced people.
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