NEW DELHI, Apr 9:
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today hinted that there was no going back on the plans for separate settlement for the displaced community in the Valley.
“I don’t want to go into details. Whatever decision was taken by the Central Government for the rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits…The decision remains the same. We had a good talk with the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir (on this issue),” he told reporters here.
His remarks came in the wake of assertions by Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed in the Assembly earlier in the day that there were no plans for a separate cluster for Kashmiri Pandits.
On Tuesday at a meeting in New Delhi, Singh had asked Sayeed to provide land in the State for composite townships for Kashmiri Pandits. The Chief Minister assured the Home Minister that the State Government will acquire and provide land at the earliest for composite townships in the Valley.
“Don’t worry, we are concerned about the security of Kashmiri Pandits and the people living there. We will prepare an action plan keeping in mind all these things,” Singh said on the sidelines of a CRPF function while reacting to Sayeed’s statement in the Assembly. (PTI)
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