Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 13: MJR-1947 Movement for Justice for PoJK 1947 DPs refugees, described the all party meeting held in Delhi as right step required to defuse the situation in Valley and pleaded for providing justice to all the stake holders and involving all in the dialogue process.
“Though this is a belated initiative, but is a forum where all the parties can express their views. Much damage has already been caused where more than fifty precious lives have been lost, about 5000 are injured, some of them with grievous injuries. Business have come to complete halt causing enormous economic losses. Students are suffering due to closure of educational institutions and public in general for supply of essential domestic requirement including medicines. Any further delay to solve the issue will be a great national loss,” MJR spokesman maintained.
Spokesman said that the policies of successive Governments at the Centre and State including the present one have not been compatible to ground realities. Till now, the policies have been to appease Valley peoples as all policies were Valley centric. The other stake holders were either not properly heard or if heard their views were not given the required attention. Hence, causing discontentment amongst the right stake holders.
Geographical State of J&K has three distinct regions – Jammu, Kashmir valley and Ladakh apart from PoK which is under illegal occupation of Pakistan. The people residing in all the regions are the stake holders and should be heard and their views should be given required attention. More than 12 lakh PoJK 1947 refugees who are the first important stake holder have never been heard. Even after lapse of seven decades, they continue to be the DPs awaiting relief and rehabilitation.
Being first party in the entire Kashmir imbroglio, they have never been made a party. Even the ethnic and religious minorities in the State particularly the Sikhs, Christian, Buddhist living in the Valley are leading miserable life. They are threatened every day. They are living without security but still holding the national flag high. Is it not great injustice that while they have never thought of leaving valley even after mishaps of massacres of Chittisinghpura or Mehjoor Nagar but they never got justice.
Such minorities were never given any employment package, security or even facilities or incentives as are given to those who migrated from Valley. Is it not irony that even reservation in educational institutions as being given to migrants from Valley is not extended to PoJK 1947 DPs.
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