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KPs rebut Home Ministry statement on Homeland Issue No Solution possible without taking Real stakeholders on board: KPSS
4/29/2015 12:19:04 AM
Javaid Naikoo
Early Times Report

SRINAGAR, Apr 28: After few days of silence over 'Composite Township' issue of Migrant Kashmiri Pandits, fresh statement of the Ministry of Home affairs regarding composite town ship issue and rebuttal from migrant Kashmir Pandits has once again brought the issue in limelight.
Minutes after one official of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said that Composite Township is not exclusively for Migrant Kashmir Pandits but for Kashmiri Muslims as well willing to live with Kashmiri Pandits in such colonies, 'Kashmiri Pandits Sangarsh Samiti (KPSS) while rebutting MHA statement said that no solution to the burning issue of composite Township is possible until both union and state governments does not take Kashmiri Pandits who are real stake holders of the issue on board.
President KPSS, Sanjay Tikoo while talking to Early Times said that while many people for their personal gains are playing politics over Composite Township issue and without knowing ground reality are asking migrant Kashmiri Pandits to return .
"Why People who talk of brotherhood and want Kashmiri Pandits to live as they used to live before 1990 remained silent when KPs left Kashmir in 1990 due to many reasons "added Sanjay Tickoo. Earlier in the day one home ministry official while terming the allegations of separatists as propaganda said that 'If Muslims want, they can buy property with their own resources and live there (in the composite townships) and added that since it's a rehabilitation scheme for migrant Kashmiri Pandits so grant will only be given to them and at least 50 per cent of the houses will be reserved for them in composite townships. He said that government was planning to build three-four townships in Kashmir and process will commence soon in which firstly state government has to acquire the land to move forward with the scheme.
Pertinently according to the proposal sent by the Jammu and Kashmir government to the Centre, Pandits will be given Rs 20 lakh, with which they can purchase a flat in the proposed townships.
According to Details government is aiming to rehabilitate nearly 10,000 migrant Kashmiri Pandit families and as per as proposal, 2,500 families will be rehabilitated in each of these townships.
The return of nearly 62,000 Kashmiri Pandit families, who had fled the Valley in the wake of militancy, is in the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) of the BJP-PDP government in the state and in this regard Chief Minister, Mufti Muhammad Syed has already assured union Home Minister, Rajnath singh of safe return of Kashmiri Pandits to Kashmir.
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