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| No consensus among KP groups on return | | Hardliners caution against return formula at this juncture | | ET Report
JAMMU, July 30: Vertical division exists between the Kashmiri Pandit representatives who were invited by Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs for a meeting in Union Capital today to discuss host of issues including the return and rehabilitation of Kashmir migrants in Valley.
According to sources a hardliner group comprising of representatives of Panun Kashmir (PK), All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference (ASKPC) and Kashmiri Samiti Delhi (KSD) were totally opposed to any return move at this juncture in view of the sensitivity of the issue involving the security of the members of KP community who were hounded out from Valley on gun point over 23 years back.
This group, which is not opposed to talks with the Central Government representatives or the Parliamentary Standing Committee has made it clear to the Committee members that in addition to return there were many more complex issues concerning the Kashmri Pandit migrants which needed immediate redressal.
This group according to sources was of the opinion that the Parliamentary Standing Committee members should prevail upon the State Government to implement the recommendations made from time to time by it regarding the welfare of displaced people from the Valley.
Sources said the members of this group which have identical and similar approach on community issues has also submitted a memorandum to the Parliamentary Committee members asking it to keep the return issue on back burner for the time being as the situation has not been conducive for the same as yet and instead pressurize the State as well as Central Government to settle the other burning issues of the community which included implementation of PM's employment package by withdrawing all draconian conditions from it, providing all basic amenities to Jagti residents including free power and water supply, passage of shrines and temples Bill, removal of encroachments from migrants land in Valley, payment of compensation for damaged properties, share in employment as well as admission in professional colleges in the state to Pandits, regularization of migrant youth elected as teachers by Delhi Government, enhancement of cash relief with soft loans to over aged youth to start their own business ventures and benefits to the community under the norms of internally displaced people.
However another group representing All India Kashmiri Samaj (AIKS) and Kashmiri Pandit Sabha (KPS) Jammu strongly favour that the Government should take steps for the return of the community to Valley and create conditions for the same as 23 years time in displacement was a long time and further delay in return process will seal the chances of displaced Pandits rehabilitation in Kashmir valley.
The members of this group which held a meeting here two days back have tried to evolve a consensus on return of the community to Valley but the majority of KP representatives especially those from camps did not agree with the same saying that only those Pandit organizations should talk of return who themselves volunteer for the return and were willing to send their wards back to Kashmir.
However not giving up its hope, this group strongly impressed upon the members of Parliamentary Standing Committee to evolve a mechanism in consultation with displaced people for the return of the community to Valley and assured its full cooperation in this regard.
that majority of migrants are willing to return and it was the Government only which is adopting the delaying tactics. It demanded that the revised package on the return be sanctioned and the State Government be given a green signal in this regard.
But the representatives of hardliner group which has expressed its reservations on return move has accused this group that its representatives are not the migrants but have left Kashmir on their own over seven decades earlier and hence have no right to take a decision on behalf of the Pandits who have been forced to flee from Valley on gun point. |
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