Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 14: Youth All India Kashmiri Samaj (YAIKS) today said that a fresh struggle needs to be launched to connect the future generation of displaced Kashmiri Pandits with their lost roots in Valley.
In a statement issued here, YAIKS said the prolonged migration has made the pain and agony of the community more intense as successive governments failed to find an everlasting remedy to the problem. “Inadequate healing touches are more a compulsion than to restore that we have lost under religious frenzy”, the statement added.
It said to analyze these facts and find a way forward, YAIKS Core Group held an interactive session with community senior leaders, elders, opinion makers and intellectuals. It was found that KPs are losing their identity very fast. Their plight has been exploited to the hilt by governments both at State and national level making them scapegoats. The fragmented leadership in the community also led to complication of problems, the meeting added.
“It said even the intention of our return to Valley is being doubted ignoring that we are its aborigines and it is our mother land”. During the meeting it was decided that youth leadership needs to be strengthen and encouraged to carry forward community struggle to regain its lost moorings.
The speakers said YAIKS being an organization of youth needs to come forward and handle community’s short term and long term problems. Much water has gone down the river and it is high time to revisit strategies adopted long back to draw a forceful road map to regain our lost glory. The community who among others included Prof: AN Sadhu, H. N. Jattu, BL Saraf, AK Dewani, PL Koul Budgami, Pran Pandit and Advocate K N Pandita said that this message should go to the Community invoking their cooperation requesting them to shun egos and being subservient to political parties who drag our rehabilitation to suit their vested interests.
RK Bhat president YAIKS base of agitation shall be broadened and constantly updated under guidance of experts and involving masses at large. An awareness campaign for joining heads and hearts shall be taken up and followed seriously.
B K Bhat, Manoj Handoo, Ajay Safaya, Sanjay Ganjoo, D. N. Bhat, Pushkar Nath Pandita, Mohan Lal Raina, Sanjeev Koul and K. L. Bhat were the Core Committee members who attended the meeting.
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