Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 3: Kashmiri Pandits today outrightly rejected the State Cabinet decision regarding settling of migrants in clusters in Kashmir valley.
Jammu and Kashmir Nationalist Movement (JKNM) in its meeting here today held under the chairmanship of its co -convener B L Pandita while appreciating the concern shown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for rehabilitating the Kashmiri Pandits in Valley however rejected the so called revised road map of the State Government as such proposals are made to exhaust the State exchequer.
The meeting noticed the nefarious design and unwillingness of the State Government by repeating the same proposal time and again.
It urged the Government that in view of the ground scenario in the Valley, a rehabilitation module needs to be framed under a comprehensive plan that ensures safeguard against repetition of 1989-90 exodus, religious cleansing and also ensure the compatibility optimum educational, medicare standards coupled with the prospectus of macroeconomic opportunities for the youth.
JKNM while reiterating its twin city -Nava Srinagar module said it is the best suited option under the given circumstances, where the entire displaced community need to be rehabilitated at one place to crate a harmonious habitat.
The meeting said that applying mind on the recent revelations of Home Minister of India about creation of one hundred new cities on the agenda of GoI, the twin city for rehabilitation of entire displaced community should not be a difficult proportion.
Kashmiri Pandit Sabha (KPS) while terming the return decision of State Cabinet shocking said it reflects the tentative attitude of the State Government towards the vital issue. On the eve of PM’s visit to the State, it can be safely said that the Chief Minister is once again trying to confuse the issue so that no viable policy can be framed in this regard.
The KPS president K K Khosa said this callousness towards the KP community has been the hall mark of the Coalition Government throughout its tenure. This is borne by the fact that only 3-5 percent of PM’s package announced in the year 2008 has been implemented till now.
The Sabha while welcoming the Prime Minister on his first visit to the State reiterated that it will support and cooperate in the implementation of any positive initiative taken by the Central Government for mitigating the sufferings of the beleaguered community. Jammu and Kashmir Vichar Manch (JKVM) in council has rejected the plan of scattering the exiled KPs across the Valley in ghettos put forth by the State Cabinet as the return module. Speaking at the Council, Dr R L Bhat, national vice president JKVM said that the Cabinet proposal is a half-hearted window dressing of the earlier PM’s Package, which had been rejected by the community for the simple reason that it does not address the vital concern of the displaced minority Hindus of Kashmir. The basic reason the separatists were able to eject the minority Hindus from Kashmir was that they lived scattered all over the Valley in small clusters. The clusters became the first targets of the terrorist. With the State agencies failing to provide any security, the aborigines of Kashmir were killed like sitting ducks. The State Government’s plan is to recreate that situation by throwing the minority Hindus to the mercy of the very elements who oppose their return.
The meeting attended among others by the JKVM leaders Ashok Kangan, H L Bhat, national general secretary, Bhushan Lal Bhat state President, Pranji Pandita, Shibanji Hakho, Santosh Koul, M L Malla, Ashokji Batargam examined the proposals issued by the State Cabinet and pointed out that the proposal is in fact an insult to the exiled community as it speicifically says that no facilities or infrastructure would be provided to the habitations.
That would make them virtual ghettos for the KP’s to be buried into.
JKVM leaders said that the like the original PM package the proposals do not speak of the security at all. They thus ignore the most vital point in the return.
All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference (ASKPC) has also condemned the malicious intentions of the Government in rehabilitating the migrants in clusters in Valley.
The ASKPC which called an emergency meeting here today under the leadership of its senior vice president R K Raina said that Government again wants that KPs should live a life of persecution and subjugation at the behest of majority community.
Raina said this disdainful idea of the Government may lead to massacres like Wandhama, Nadimarg or Sangrampura.
S K Bhat spokesman of the organization said that migrant be rehabilitated at one place in Kashmir.
Kashmir Pandit Conference (KPC) president Kundan Kashmir while outright rejecting the package said that the State Government in general and NC in particular has come into its true colours so far as its policies towards KPs are concerned.
He in a statement issued today said that the settlement in clusters was not acceptable and reiterated the demand of compact rehabilitation at a single place where there is free flow of Indian Constitution. He said no return is possible till abrogation of Article 370.
Kashmiri Hindu Conference (KHC) while rejecting the decision said that nothing except the twin cities was acceptable. The KHC president M L Thusoo and convener P L Koul Badgami while commenting on Cabinet decision said this shows that State Government was not interested in rehabilitation of Pandits in Valley otherwise what harm was there in construction of twin cities within Valley for rehabilitation of migrants.
JCC leader Sanjay Raina and Apex Committee member Roshan Lal Raina have also opposed the Cabinet decision and strongly condemned it.
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