Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 20: The Jammu Kashmir Sharnarthi Action Committee (JKSAC) today made a humble appeal to all the former CMs and Deputy CMs alongwith heads of all the political parties to project the DP’s issues particularly registration of their claims for left-out properties and compensation thereof and defreezing of their share of assembly seats before the PM in the all party meeting called by him on June 24, 2021.
In a meeting of the JKSAC members held at RS Pura today, all the participants requested to mount pressure on the Central Govt to accept and implement the JPC Report No. 183 which has recommended an ex-gratia relief of Rs 30 lakhs to each DP family alongwith other components till the Central Govt takes the final call to resolve the seven decades old legitimate problems of DPs.
While addressing the meeting Gurdev Singh, president said that JKSAC has been struggling since 1967 for the final settlement of DPs and have expressed various DPs legitimate concerns with all the J&K and Central Governments, regarding the registrations of claims for their left-out properties in PoK and compensation thereof including defreezing of their share of assembly seats. But unfortunately due to lack of proper projection of the issues the same were denied by the Central Govt. They might have felt that any registration of DPs claims and its compensation thereof as well as defreezing of assembly seats could give rise to the feeling that GOI has given up the hope for the return of the area and moreover, it could also be against the constitutional stand taken by India in the international forum.
He said that since Pakistan is globally exposed over the Kashmir issue and has lost all its claims in the international forums as well as United Nation has also removed this issue from the list of unresolved disputed issues. So, now, if PM is apprised properly and the issue is projected in the right perspective, the DPs are sure that a fixed policy could be framed to resolve the issue as there is no legal and constitutional implications left now.
He said that a national consensus was also evolved in 1994 in Parliament to liberate POK from the illegal occupation of Pakistan but unfortunately it is still confined to the files. He said Modi Govt has the capacity and political will to sort out such pending legitimate issues.
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