Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 15: The Kashmiri Pandit Relief Holders and Over-aged Youth held a protest in front of Press Club here, today in support of their demands.
The protestors with placards in their hands were raising slogans in support of their long pending demands including hike in monthly cash relief.
The protestors urged the Government to enhance the existing cash assistance to match the current cost of living and ensuring basic sustenance for relief holders having no source of income after their forced displacement form the Valley due to failure of successive governments to rehabilitate them during last 37 years of their exile.
They further demanded one time rehabilitation package for over-aged displaced youth from Valley who were ignored by the Government over these years and have no source of living except the meagre cash doles provided by the Government.
They demanded that the plight of these displaced youth who are without any source of income be recognised whose aspirations despite repeated pleas were not fulfilled by the successive governments over the years.
Justifying their demands, the protestors said they are linked both to justice and humanitarian concerns of a community which was forced to become refugees in their own country by the forces inimical to national unity and integrity. They said the continuous delay in hiking the monthly cash assistance for a pretty long time has deepened frustration among the relief holders-the victims of Pak sponsored terrorism and these hapless people are craving for justice over the years.
They urged the present dispensation to address this most genuine issue in a time bound manner, as ignoring the genuine concerns will further add to the sufferings of the exiled community which has totally been ignored by the UT as well as Union Governments for over last three decades.
The protestors said that they are committed in pursuing their cause through peaceful and democratic means to seek justice for the genuine cause. They also urged the community to be united for this cause and launch a united and decisive struggle. Maintaining that the justice delayed is justice denied, the protestors said that their wait has already been too long.
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