Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 6: Jammu Kashmir Sharnarthi Action Committee (JKSAC) highly appreciated the Jammu Kashmir People Forum for holding a rally of DPs of 1947 from PoK in collaboration with Refugee Cell BJP to pay tributes to more than 40,000 people who were brutally massacred by tribals abetted by Pakistani army and also reiterating their pledge to liberate PoK, a legal part of India under the illegal occupation of Pakistan.
The JK People Forum was urged upon to adopt a resolution to impress upon govt. to declare Oct 22, 1947 as a Martyrs day when an unparallel genocide took place in present history of the world.
The participants in the meeting held her under the leadership of Gurdev Singh, its president, also urged upon the Forum to adopt the resolution demanding the implementation of Joint Parliamentary Committee report No. 183 a complete roadmap to resolve the DPs legitimate issues till the PoK is liberated and their claims are registered accordingly the finals compensation for the loss of life and property is paid to them otherwise the rally would not serve the desired purpose.
While making an appeal to DPs to participate in the rally whole heartedly, Gurdev Singh (JKSAC chief) said that DPs are awaiting their final settlement from the last 70 years but were ignored on political grounds. He said that their issues are totally non-political and should be resolved purely on humanitarian grounds. He appealed to DPs that besides paying tributes to their martyred relations and also reiterating their pledge to liberate PoK from illegal occupation of Pakistan, they should seriously impress upon the organiser of the rally to adopt a comprehensive resolution for DPs adequate settlement as per recommendations of JPC report number 183 which has taken cognizance of all the legitimate issues including political empowerment for DPs to represent the aspirations of their community.
Singh regretted that DP’s issues have been overlooked for political consideration by several govts of the past. The DPs always gave them massive supports but they never reciprocated. He said that particularly their youths have been pushed to the wall and were not given any employment package/reservation.
He said that liberation of PoK is a national resolve pending execution for the last 75 years. A unanimous resolution was also passed by India Parliament in 1994 in this regard. It is unfortunate that after lapse of 28 years the resolution is still confined to the files and no follow-up action either diplomatically or militarily has been taken up by the Govt. India must aggressively assert its claim over PoK, he asserted.
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