Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 25: Girdhari Lal Raina, former MLC and spokesperson of BJP JK-UT, has strongly condemned the registration of an FIR against peaceful protestors belonging to the displaced Kashmiri Hindu community.
He described the action as “deeply unfortunate, insensitive, and vindictive,” particularly because several individuals who were not even present at the protest site have reportedly been included among the accused especially one Kuldeep Pandita whose mother had died and entire family was in mourning.
“This is nothing short of vendetta against a community that has already suffered decades of displacement, neglect, and institutional apathy,” Raina stated.
The former MLC asserted that the debate surrounding ration integration under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in relation to the displaced Kashmiri Hindu community is not merely about food grains or administrative procedure. At its core, he said, the issue concerns identity, dignity, Constitutional protection, and the unresolved status of a community that continues to live in exile decades after displacement.
“What appears to the administration as a routine welfare transition is experienced by the community as yet another step toward institutional invisibilization,” he added.
Raina emphasized that the displaced community does not oppose food security. “What the community resists is the gradual dilution of its legal and historical identity as a people who suffered targeted displacement, ethnic cleansing, loss of homeland, and prolonged exile,” he said.
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