Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 20: Jammu Kashmir Sharnarthi Action Committee (JKSAC) has appealed the Government for implementation of the Joint Parliamentary Committee recommendations to resolve the grievances of 1947 PoJK Displaced Persons.
“We are submitting a petition, signed by over one lakh DPs to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister Amit Shah, Lt Governor J&K Manoj K Sinha and others concerned demanding implementation of JPC on Home Affair’s Report number 183, which is the only viable road-map to resolve the DPs grievances concerning their settlement,” said JKSAC President Gurdev Singh, while addressing a press conference, here today.
He apprised the media that JKSAC had launched a signature campaign over a year back with an aim to aware the DPs about their rehabilitation issues and particularly to draw the attention of PM and other concerning authorities towards the plight of lakhs of DPs spreading in 17 Assembly segments of Jammu region awaiting the resolution of their proper settlement from the last seven decades.
The campaign has culminated and the signatures collected, representing the voice of over 1.2 million DPs, would be submitted to PM along with the detailed petition, said Gurdev Singh, adding that the copy of petition would also be submitted to BJP national president J P Nadda, Union Minister Dr Jatindra Singh, Jugal Kishore Sharma (MP) and others by a high level delegation of DPs.
While elaborating, Gurdev Singh apprised the media that JPC Report number 183 has recommended some ex-gratia relief measures for the settlement of DPs till the PoJK is liberated from the illegal occupation of Pakistan.
JKSAC leader claimed that PoJK DPs have been discriminated, ignored and their rehabilitation issues were never highlighted and projected in the right perspective before the Central Govt. “The facts regarding their issues were concealed and distorted by the former Government with an ulterior motives to weaken them economically, educationally and politically,” he alleged and said that the DPs were demanding nothing undue, but only raising their voice for legitimate rights of registration of their claims and compensation of their left-out properties, de-freezing of their constitutional share of eight Assembly seats and reservation/employment package for their wards besides other components.
Gurdev Singh said that the DPs have full faith in PM Modi and they are very hopeful for a positive outcome as soon as their voice reaches to him.
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