"Nothing can be addressed in the framework of coalition's CMP for KPs"

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"Nothing can be addressed in the framework of coalition's CMP for KPs"

3/2/2015 1:15:40 AM

Jammu, Mar 1: The common minimum programme released by the PDP-BJP combine has drawn Kashmiri pundits' ire. They lament that the present government has gullied them one again by murdering their hopes. The CMP on its page 8 contains a head: Social and Humanitarian initiatives that ensure protecting and fostering ethnic and religious diversity by ensuring return of Kashmiri Pandits and reintegrating them in the Kashmiri milieu. "There is no mention of our prime demand of separate homeland and instead want to remerge us into a milieu from which we were hounded out 25 years back. This is quite ridiculous. How can we again be a part of a system that stood witness to our genocide and religious cleansing," said Shadi Lal Pandita, 69, a resident of Bijbehara in Kashmir presently putting up at Talab Tillo Jammu. " Instead, we find it comfortable in Jammu milieu where we have been able to sustain and re-integrate our cultural, social as well as economical viability," he said while vehemently dismissing the offer for KPs in CMP as most disgusting. The CMP for KPs reads for protecting and fostering ethnic and religious diversity by ensuring the return of KPs with dignity based on their rights as state subjects and reintegrating as well as absorbing them in the Kashmiri milieu."It is vague. It is ambiguous. It does not address the most contentious issues of the genocide and the religious cleansing of the minority community. It is again a floating offer which addresses nothing in this framework," said Panun Kashmir chairman Ajay Chrungoo while talking to Early Times. Chrungoo earlier too had raised his concern over the non-inclusion of any KP representation in the government formation and had expressed his skepticism saying that a party professing nationalism and the other soft secessionism joining hands is likely to weaken the nationalist agenda when it comes to Jammu and Kashmir. What will follow remains to be seen, he had said."Had there been a KP representative in the coalition at any level, it would have helped the government to take a clinical insight into the miseries of the community," said another KP youth leader Mahesh kaul.However the CMP for KPs concludes with reintegration to be a process that will start within the state as well as the civil society by taking the community into confidence.

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