Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 30: In its meeting of Core Committee on Political Affairs of All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference (ASKPC) held here, today under the chairmanship of its president Advocate Ravinder Raina, it was resolved that community will continue struggle for restoration of its fundamental and political rights in newly created political structure of Jammu & Kashmir.
The meeting alleged that till date community has been deprived of justice right from the date it was ousted from Valley of Kashmir. The community was forced to leave it’s mother land under a communal Jehadi agenda. Community noted with regret that almost all successive State as well as Central Governments till date did only lip service to this hapless displaced community. Instead of addressing this worst political and human rights problem of the Century, its magnitude was deliberately undermined, minimized and Trivialized. In the history of Independent India it is the first example of its kind where entire community of aborigines was ousted from its birth place. Not only this, even the existent symbol of its 5000 year old cultural continuity were not tolerated and spared.
It said thousands of our vacant houses were burnt and razed to ground. Orchards were either cut, damaged beyond limit. Almost more than 200 temples and shrines were burnt and damaged. Lands attached to these holy shrines were illegally usurped and encroached upon. Community of its own is struggling for safety of these ancient and historical shrines. But all in vain, because all successive State Governments gave a deaf ear to its appeal for passage of a Shrines Bill and thus allowed the loot, plunder and vandalization of this great heritage. Till date nothing substantial changed for the displaced Kashmiri Pandit Samaj, it added.
By giving nominal doles to this genocide inflicted community, no Government can absolve itself of the responsibility to protect its people and their cultural heritage. Displaced Kashmiri Hindu community in one voice expressed full faith in strong, able, decisive and capable leadership of our Prime Minister. “We hope that this time our suffering and reality of our genocide and exodus will be addressed in right perspective. We hope that our forced displacement will not be trivialized again and addressed as an issue of merely tenements or of few doles or few jobs. It is question of resettling an ancient ethos, over a 5000 year old culture continuity in Valley of Kashmir on permanent basis, where refoulment of previous seven exodus will not be repeated again”, it added.
The others who also participated in the meeting were R.K.Wangnoo senior vice president, Dr. T.K.Bhat, general secretary, Ravi Raina youth president and Ashok Dhar.
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