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| KPs' Jantar Mantar protest a setback for Sangh Parivar | | 'BJP Blinks, Hope Sinks | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 3: Thousands of internally-displaced Kashmiri Pandits today held a peaceful protest demonstration at Jantar Mantar, Delhi, to register their protest against Kashmiri separatists and tell the country what they wanted. There were reports that certain elements from the Sangh Parivar, who want the Pandit refugees to return to the Valley, were also behind this event. Members of Jammu and Kashmir Vichar Manch (JKVM), a RSS-sponsored KPs' outfit, were, in fact, there in the protest, who were overshadowed by the Panun Kashmir activists, and who defeated the Parivar's game plan.
The Parivar of which the BJP is its political organ is opposed to the KPs' demand for separate homeland in the Valley. It wants them to resettle in a township in which half of the occupants would be KPs and the remaining half Kashmiri Muslims and Sikhs. The Parivar and the state and central governments call it "composite" township. Most of the KPs, who took part in the protest, rejected the idea of a composite township and reiterated the demand for homeland. They rejected the state government's view that only 10 to 15 per cent of the displaced Kashmiri Pandits wanted to return to the Valley and declared that all of them wanted to return to their homeland but on their own terms and conditions. "We must be taken on board. Our views must be considered. We are the affected community. No one can dictate terms to us," many protestors declared.
"The state and the Centre take the community members into confidence before any decision on their return to the Valley. They must also set up a commission to probe the 'genocide' which led to our exodus. Reopen prosecution cases against all those involved in the killing of Kashmiri pandits in the Valley following the outbreak of militancy," some of them also said. More importantly, some of the protestors demanded abrogation of Article 370. In fact, placards carried by protesters demanded that Article 370, which gives separate status to Jammu and Kashmir, be abolished. The BJP now no more talks about Article 370 for reasons best known to it. Some placard said: "Modi blinks, hope sinks". The slogan "Modi blinks, hope sinks" conveyed everything. It conveyed that the KP community has no confidence in PM Modi and his government and this must have shocked the entire Sangh Parivar who was thinking in terms of inducing the persecuted community to return to Kashmir. The placard also suggested that the BJP has compromised its stand on Jammu and Kashmir and, like the Congress-led UPA Government, adopted a soft approach towards separatists and those who were responsible for their forced exodus from the Valley.
Not only there were anti-Modi placards. Some protestors also tore into the BJP-led NDA Government. CBFC board member, Ashok Pandit, a film maker and an activist, who had flown in from Mumbai to take part in the protest, said that the "Centre believing the words of Sayeed was the biggest problem for Kashmiri Pandits". "When I see all the terrorists on the streets of Kashmir, then what is the difference between the previous and this central government. The biggest problem is that the central government is trusting the Chief Minister, who says he is thankful to Pakistan after the peaceful elections," Pandit was quoted as saying. He and others burned the effigies of Syed ali shah Geelani, Yasin Malik and other Kashmiri separatists and demand their arrest.
The KPs' today's Jantar Mantar rally must open the eyes of those who make statements on their return unilaterally. They need to concede the KPs' demand for separate homeland. |
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