Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Apr 9: CPI (M) leader, Mohammad Yousuf Tarigami has appealed the Government to facilitate safe return of J&K residents stranded outside their native places.
“I have been told that some students, labourers, traders and patients with their attendants were returning to their homes after hectic efforts but were not allowed to move towards Kashmir at Lakhanpur toll post. All these stranded people from Jammu and Kashmir want to come back and remain in mandatory quarantine. It is imperative to maintain social distancing. But on the other hand, those stranded can’t be left unattended. There is lot of uncertainty among their families,” Tarigami said.
He said if the evacuation of these stranded people from J&K is not possible at the moment due to the unprecedented situation, the least Government of India could do is to reach out to them with the help of respective state Governments where they are stranded in, adding they must be treated in a humane manner, by providing them with enough food, water, beds and supplies as well as psycho-social counselling.
“The J&K Government should also ask its administration to prepare a database of those stranded within and outside J&K and take up the matter with the respective State Governments so that food, shelter, medicines and other necessary items could be provided to them in these pressing circumstances,” added Tarigami.
He further said that it was a human tragedy which continued to unfold before our eyes, adding everybody in this situation has a right to go home when so much fear and frenzy has been created.
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