Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 15: Jammu Kashmir Nationalist Movement facilitated consensus among the representatives of major groups of displaced Kashmiri Pandits on the basics of their return and rehabilitation in the Valley.
In a three hour long assessment and debate on the rehabilitation issue, the speakers said that the time had come when the displaced community should come out with basics of their rehabilitation in the Valley in changed socio-political scenario of Kashmir. The convergence of opinion was that the Forum should impress upon the State and the Central Government to formulate a plan of their concentrated rehabilitation in the Valley in consultation with their representatives.
The prominent speakers on the occasion were K K Khosa of Kashmiri Hindu Sabha Ambphalla, B L Saraf, Madam Usha Tiku, Bansi Lal Pandita and Suraj Prakash Kaul. Surinder Ambardar, MLC, while addressing the conclave, said that on party level he would accord all support to the consensus opinion of the conclave and any agreed formula of return and rehabilitation of the displaced community.
K K Khosa speaking on behalf of the Kashmiri Hindu Sabha, said that care had to be taken that the community did not create obstruction for the Central or the State Government which was seized of the issue. He however, added his group could be liberal in regard to rehabilitation of locals without diluting the idea of the community living in concentration back in the Valley.
Moving the resolution for concentrated rehabilitation, Dr K N Pandita, convener, JKNM said it was a historic occasion for the community of displaced persons that it could arrive at a common roadmap for rehabilitation and pursue the same with the concerned official circles. He emphasized that there was no need to get bogged with the nomenclature because name mattered little.
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