Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 8: All J&K 1947 PoJK Sharnarthi Intellectual Forum has expressed strong resentment against exclusion of PoJK DPs from the bill for Pahari status.
In a meeting held by its Core Committee members under the presdentship of Amrik Singh, the Forum welcomed the bill granting Pahari status to ethnic people which paves the way to 10% reservation in Assembly, Muncipalities, Panchayats along with other benefits, bit at the same time the Forum strongly condemned the exclusion of PoJK displaced persons from this bill which is the great injustice to the people who virtually belongs to the Pahari Tribal areas.
The Forum reiterated that people are residing in urban areas which never built their houses in Pahari areas are benefitted by virtue of this bill and the people who are original residents of Tribal mountains are deliberately ignored and kept out from this bill.
The Forum further expressed that the DPs of 1947 did not leave at their own but they were uprooted by the external aggression by the Pak army and all our moveable and immoveable property is still lying in PoJK then how could they be rejected from the Pahari Status and this is the great injustice meted out to the PoJK DPs.
The Forum further resented that there are some black sheep in bureaucracy and political level who give false data to Union Government. The Forum urged upon the Prime Minister Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to rethink and Constitute a Commission of Retd Judicial Members who visit the J&K and get verify the ground situation of the Pahari speaking people areas.
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