Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, July 18: Prem Nath Bhat Memorial Trust convened a meeting today which was chaired by the Chairman of the Trust Dr. A. N. Pandita . The meeting was attended by the trustees, members and invitees wherein deliberations of wide range took place pertaining to the unpleasant developments taking place in Kashmir and their impact on the interests of the hounded out Kashmiri Pandit community particularly, on the most important issue of passage of Hindu temples and shrines in Kashmir.
The House unanimously condemned unwarranted, unprovoked and frenzied attacks made recently on Kashmiri Pandits most of whom are State employees and serving Kashmiris there. Members were surprised that over drop of a hat in Kashmir, the oppressed and suppressed exiled community members and their properties are organizedly attacked , a historical continuous phenomenon which has not stopped even after devastating and uprooting this community from their deep roots of over 5341 years. A resolution was unanimously passed condemning such frenzied attacks on Kashmiri Pandits by unruly mobs.
The members also made an appraisal of the level of the struggle by the Trust for the passage of the long pending issue of the Hindu Temples and Shrines Bill in Kashmir which members in one voice termed as an acid test of the sincerity and honesty of the present dispensation in the State towards the beleaguered hounded out community of Kashmiri Pandits. “The matter has added immense importance in the background of the current turmoil in the Valley and its protraction with the sole aim of harming the interests of the oppressed KP community and the lurking threat of encroachment, usurpation, desecration and even demolishing of the signs and symbols of the ethnic Kashmiri Pandit community besides frustrating attempts of their return and rehabilitation in the Valley”, they said.
A well knit programme to intensify the ongoing peaceful struggle was chalked out to ensure the passage of the Bill and accord legal and statutory protection of their preservation, repairs, maintenance and democratically elected management system.
The Trust rubbished and rejected a move from some quarters to moot in vain the possibility of some Board to look after the Kashmiri Hindu temples and shrines in the Valley and termed it as ill conceived and with potentiality to deliberately create confusion in the whole gamut of the ongoing struggle for its passage undertaken by the Trust as the nodal organization following massive mandate given by the community to handle this sensitive and important matter.
The members demanded that without any wastage of time adequate security be provided to the Hindu temples, shrines and other allied properties to thwart any attempt to alter, tamper with demarcations, falling of trees etc in respect of all the temples that are without security personnel watch and protection.
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