Enact law to check conversions: Varinderjeet
Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 27: Senior BJP leader and former member Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Council today while meeting the various Sikh delegations in Srinagar who were protesting for forceful conversion and abduction of Sikh daughters said that Sikh brethren of Kashmir are not alone as BJP stands with them and they will get justice.
Ambardar, while issuing a press statement said that he was informed by the family and relatives of the victim that a 47 year old Shahid Nazir Bhat who was already married forcefully tried to marry a 18 year old Sikh girl with an intention to convert her but when the family resisted he conspired with some officials of police to forcefully marry her.
He further added that Advocate Barkat Kaur was humiliated and not allowed to meet the girl.
Ambardar assured the Sikh delegation that justice will be delivered at all the cost without any delay as BJP stands for justice to all appeasement to none.
While interacting with the delegation which included majority of youth of the Sikh community he spoke about the spirit of the democracy wherein the minority community should get equal justice and equal rights but unfortunately in Kashmir form last 30 years a nexus is working to ensure that minorities should get demeaned and persecuted that is what happened to our Kashmiri Pandit community and that is what is now happening to our Sikh community brethren “but I assure my brothers and sisters who had come that this is new India led by visionary Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, who believes in justice to all and no such forceful conversions will be allowed”, he added.
He further stated that he was also briefed about the nexus of some officers who also played a role in abetting the forceful conversion and created various obstacles for the families of the girl who were abducted in getting justice. Ambardar warned all those officers involved that they will not be spared .They will have come clean for their actions or else they will be dealt with stern punishment ” he said.
“I will also be taking up this issue with our party High Command and will plead for the law to ban inter religious marriages till there is no parental and court consent” he added.
Meanwhile Sikhs in Kashmir held massive protest against the forceful conversion of two girls of the community and sought justice for the minority community.
National Sikh Front (NSF) chairman and Jammu and Kashmir Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) vice president, Varinderjeet Singh has expressed satisfaction on the decision of a local court in Kashmir for its order to handover a Sikh girl to her parents, who was kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to marry a non Sikh.
Varinderjeet Singh made a fervent appeal to the LG of Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory to make a law on forced conversions similar to one enacted in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh to check these types of incidents in future. The Government should take concrete steps for the safeguard of minority Sikh community in JK UT, he added.
He also appealed to the majority community of JK UT that they should live in harmony and help Sikhs in these kind of incidents as Sikhs have always respected the sentiments of other communities and were in frontline to help them in times of need.
Singh shared that during the initial days of the COVID-19, the Sikhs helped Kashmiri students in different parts of the country by extending them help to reach their homes in Valley by bearing all the expenses. The majority comments should also reciprocate by displaying a humane approach and come in open support of Sikhs, so that image of Kashmiriyat is not tarnished and the social fabric is further strengthened.
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