Homeland emerging core issue of KPs: Joint Forum

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 1: The Joint Forum of KP Organizations held a meeting here today which among others was attended by Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo, President, Panun Kashmir, Vijay Raina, President, Kashmiri Samiti Delhi, R.K.Raina, Senior vice president, ASKPC, D.N.Kissu, Chairman-ADKPUF, Kamal Bagati, organising secretary-PK and Virender Raina, official spokesperson-Joint Forum.
The meeting discussed the current political scenario and the president, KSD also apprised the Joint Forum leaders about the recent initiatives taken by his organization.
Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo, President, P K while addressing the meeting expressed his satisfaction that more and more Kashmiri Pandit groups are gravitating towards the core edifice of Kashmiri Pandit aspiration that is a separate Homeland in Kashmir.
Moreover, the issues of the genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Pandits cannot be brushed away and need to be addressed to find out the causes for the rise of fundamentalism and terrorism in the Valley leading ultimately to mass exodus of the KPs from Kashmir.
The demand of Homeland is the core political issue bedeviling the community and that alone would meet the imperatives of justice and national security in Kashmir.
Vijay Raina, president, K S D said that his organization has been looking after the welfare of the community in the NCR of Delhi. The return and economic rehabilitation are two separate issues and cannot be linked together. While overage youth need to be given a onetime compensation and the Government should not waste any more time in this issue.  The Kashmiri Samiti has been demanding economic rehabilitation simultaneously for the betterment of the community brethren. We support the Homeland demand as the only permanent solution to our woes.
R K Raina, senior vice president, ASKPC said that it is high time to tighten the security grid and also to make the borders of the State impregnable.
Virender Raina, Spokesperson-Joint Forum appealed to the Government to implement the recommendations contained in the 137th and 179th Report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs.