Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 1: Jammu Kashmir Sharnarthi Action Committee (JKSAC) urged upon Lt. Governor, GC Murmu to take up the Domicile Law issue with Union Ministry of Home Affairs, with regard to hereditary residents of erstwhile J&K State settled outside particularly DPs of 1947 from PoK and urged upon him to exempt them from the purview of the 15 years’ stay condition as notified in Domicile Law which will cease their birthright of being a permanent domicile of UT of J&K.
Gurdev Singh, president JKSAC stated that Govt is under process to notify new land laws/bye-laws in next few days. While expressing his serious concern said that earlier while framing the Domicile Law for UT of J&K the Govt has not given any serious thought regarding the heredity subjects of J&K and were kept at par with those who have become domicile by choice. It is travesty of law that many such outsider residents particularly Rohingyas having ration cards and ID cards are casting their votes in elections for the last many years, have preferred over the bonafide subjects as per the existing notifications. It may look most absurd when an originally born domicile may stand in line with a person of preference to obtain a Domicile certificate having 15 years stay in J&K.
Singh further said that as per official record of the Govt more than 5300 DP families went outside the J&K after 1947 turmoil in search of food and shelter. These families increased manifolds with the span of time and today their number is in lakhs along with many others hereditary residents who also went outside in connection with employment/business and settled there. The DPs families went outside due to the gross negligence of the then state and GoI. The DPs settled outside J&K are also registered with PRO Jammu and were given relief along with other DPs settled here. He said it was the legal and moral obligation of the State as well as GoI to give them an opportunity and space to come back to settle in their native State as is being done by Govt in the case of Kashmiri migrants.
He appealed to GC Murmu and Home Minister that representatives of DPs would be granted hearing in this perspective and should be taken into confidence before making the final call.
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