Jammu, June 8 : JKVM Council reiterated that return to the valley was the primary concern of the minority Hindus exiled from Kashmir and living as refugees for the last 25 years.
According to press release, speaking in meeting organized at Jammu the council members of Jammu Kashmir Vichar Manch (JKVM) said that while most of the problems like unemployment, lack of opportunities, loss of business and livelihood, faced by the exiled minority Hindus of Kashmir arose from their having been exiled from their land, the conditions obtaining in the valley, then as well as now, are a primary factors which must be included in all talks of Return.
"No discussion of Return can take place without taking due stock of the ground realities of the valley. No Return module can be formulated without taking the perceptions of the exiled community into consideration", the leaders said, adding that in fact, the major problem with the modules promoted by various governments of the day, including the package announced by the previous prime minister, has been their being formulated without the consultation of the exiled people and reference to the situation in the valley.
The leaders further said that it was the singular demand of the exiled community, piloted by P N Bhat Memorial Trust, with the consensus of the whole community. "Even this could not take off.
Return and habilitation of the exiled community was a larger issue that involved a much larger consonance and much more seriousness", they said, adding that it cannot be decided on the political expediency of a party or the private calculations of a few persons angling in the changed political scenario. The result has been that these packages and promises have not taken off. The council, which met at Barnai, Jammu, was attended among others by Dr R L Bhat, H L Bhat, Pranji Pandita, B L Bhat, Tej Sagar, A K Pandita, Avtar Hugami, J L Raina, Sandeshji, Vijay Sagar, Pravin Koul, M L Bhat, M L Malla, D N Bhan, J L Koul, Santosh Koul. The meeting noted that the leadership of this state had flagrantly played with as universal a cause of the community as the Shrines bill seeking to protect the temples in the valley. |
