Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 25: The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference (NC) today decried the J&K and the Central Government for ignoring the genuine demands of non-migrant Kashmiri Pandits who are sitting in an indefinite hunger strike at Ganpatyar, temple, Srinagar over the past six days.
Upon instructions from party president and Member of Parliament from Srinagar, Dr. Farooq Abdullah, party’s provincial president (Kashmir) Nasir Aslam Wani today visited the sit-in at Ganpatyar temple and expressed solidarity with the protesters led by Kashmiri Pandit Sangarsh Samitee (KPSS) president, Sanjay Tickoo.
In a statement, the party’s provincial president said that it was appalling to see the Government not taking cognizance of the hunger strike. “So far no one from the administration has visited them. It is the sixth day of their hunger strike, and the very wellbeing of the protesters is in jeopardy,” he said while expressing dismay that no Government official has visited them and that no medical team was either sent to check their wellbeing.
Nasir assured the protesters that the National Conference will take up their issues at all forums and strive to ensure that their demands are conceded. He impressed upon the administration to ensure reservation of 500 posts for non migrant Kashmiri Pandits. “2000 posts announced under the Prime Minister package are yet to be filled,” he said.
The protesting non-migrant Pandits acquainted him that the 137th Parliamentary Committee has also revealed the dwindling financial condition of the non-migrants making the community eligible for the assistance from the Government.
The protesters asserted that in wake of the cold response, and the dwindling job prospects the community would also be pushed to leave for other places. They said the young educated professionals who have passed the upper age limit for the Government’s job are looking into the deep abyss. They said the Government’s apathetic deeds towards non- migrant Pandit community will not help those migrant Pandits to return.
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