Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 18: Expressing its anguish at the complete reticence of Central and State authorities on addressing the issues of Kashmiri Pandits, All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference (ASKPC) today urged the conscious class of the country including political leadership to play their dutiful role in mitigating the teething problems being faced by the miniscule minority which forced them to migrate from their ancestral land to become refugees in their own country.
Taking serious note of the Lackadaisical approach of the present Central dispensation for continuously ignoring the serious issues faced by the internally displace Kashmiri Pandit Community, ASKPC called upon the countrymen and the political leaders who are always parroting the secularism and India as secular country to understand the agony through which the members of the displaced community were passing and start a movement throughout the country to immediately address their issues said Dr. T.K Bhat general secretary, ASKPC in an interactive meeting of prominent members of the community today at ASKPC Bhawan Durga Nagar which was preside d over by its president Advocate Ravinder Raina.
Bhat said the present Government at Centre headed by Narendra Modi & J&K Union Territory headed by Lt. Governor G.C Murmu have remained completely silent to address the issues of Kashmiri Pandit community despite having brought such issues to their notice from time to time . It appeared that both Central and State Governments adopting a “Nelsons eye” towards this community and therefore we appeal to our countrymen to urge the Government to mitigate the problems of community which have been compounded by year after year resulting into mass exodus of Pandits from Valley in 1989-1999.
He said Central Government has been ignoring the representative organization of Kashmiri Pandits who have worked for the community for more than seven decades, hence the present dispensation headed by Modi must understand and take into confidence only those KPs organization and its leadership to sort out issues of return and rehabilitation at one place with economic and political empowerment and to regulate the administration temples and shrines, enhance of cash relief to displaced persons and extension of various Central schemes for employment and health of the members of displaced to community.
The others who spoke in this meeting where R.K Wangnoo, C.L Bhat, Ram Krishan Bhat Bharat Bushan Bhat, Ravi Raina, Veena Gurtoo, P.L Shangroo, R.L Koul etc.
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