Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 23: MJR47, an organisation of refugees of 1947 from PoJK displaced during the tribal raid of 1947 on the State from Muzaffrabad , Poonch and Mirpur Distt. feel highly disappointed due to the neglect, discrimination and apathy of successive Governments in Centre as well as in State.
It is during the elections, may it be the Parliamentary or the State Assembly, when all the political parties show sympathy with this class and make promises to solve their issues just to woo voters and then forget all no sooner the election fever recedes and they come to power.
A spokesman of MRJ- 47 said that the recently concluded Parliamentary elections, BJP too to gain favour of refugees took out long ‘Adhikar Yatra’ from Poonch to Kathua, made tall promises to resolve this long outstanding problem on humanitarian grounds and with a humane heart. This rekindled great hopes in this depressed class and we were certain that BJP at the Centre would do justice. Congress too, made refugee issue a major part of their manifesto and promised once again to ensure justice to PoJK refugees. But no sooner the elections ended and BJP gained power at Centre, they seem to have forgotten refugees in the State who had voted whole heatedly for them. Similar is the NC-Congress coalition in the State who are sleeping over the proposal of relief-package which is lying before the State Cabinet for the last several months.
Govt. of India in the recently concluded Budget session of 2014-15, not even talked once about POJK refugees in particular except the KP Migrants where they were too generous to declare several measures & special package in the budget even without having received any specific proposal from the Government.
It will not be out of place to mention that the Home Minister stated on the floor of the house in Lok Sabha that the house may adopt a unanimous resolution stating ” That the house will not sit in peace till the migrants go back to valley and are settled honourably” and also stated that ‘ no body should be refugee within his own country’. “We welcome the statement, but we fail to understand to whom the HM was referring to as refugees, as neither Valley migrants nor the DP’s of 1947 are categorised ‘refugees’ so far by any Govt.
It is unfortunate and pitiable that most of POJK-1947 refugees living all along on the LOC & Indo-Pak border are practically living in bunkers and not in houses highly terrorised and suffering losses due to regular gun- fire from across the border by PAK Forces.
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