Pandits for creation of Centrally administered territory in Valley

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 27: Various Kashmiri Pandit organizations today expressed hope that the new Government at the Centre will make a healthy departure from the policies pursued by the previous Governments in the State of Jammu and Kashmir and New Delhi with regard to internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus.
In a joint statement issued here by Dr. Agnishekher Convener Panun Kashmir, Dr. Ajay Chrungoo Chairman Panun Kashmir,  R K Raina President All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference ( ASKPC ) and Kundan Kashmiri president Kashmiri Pandit Conference ( KPC ) said the previous Governments in the State and the Centre deliberately sought to reduce the unprecedented forced exodus of the entire population of Kashmir as an issue of voluntary migration.
They said it is time that the new Government at the Centre recognizes formally the issue of internal displacement of the entire population of Kashmiri Hindus from Kashmir province as an issue of religious cleansing and genocide.
They said return of around a thousand jobs seeking internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus to Valley has pushed them into a situation bereft of basic freedom and sustainable development.
The KP leaders demanded that those who inflicted the religious cleansing have to be brought to justice as the first and most crucial step in this process.
“We want to state without fear and with all honesty that the habitat of Kashmiri Hindus in the Valley has been by and large destroyed through a sinister crusade of destruction and usurpation. For the return of Kashmiri Hindus there is an imperative necessity of to rebuild a habitat.  To believe that there are existing original homes and hearths still intact and waiting for the return of the exilees is travesty of truth” they said.
They said that Kashmiri Hindus cannot live dispersed in an environment plagued by fundamentalism and controlled by terrorist regimes. Kashmiri Hindus cannot live dispersed in a political order which nourishes separatism and religious hatred.  Kashmiri Hindus will not live in servitude of a de-facto religious State which is being conferred a secular legitimacy for political expediency.
The KP leaders said they demand the creation of a Centrally administered territory in Kashmir valley where there is free flow of Indian constitution and no communally motivated constitutional clause like Article 370. The sustainable and permanent return of Kashmiri Hindus can be possible only in such a dispensation, they added.

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