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| 8-membered APC sets shock waves within state polity | | Refugees’ hopes suffer pendulum movement within optimism and uncertainties | |
Sanjay Khajuria
Jammu May 26
IT SEEMS COLAITION government has already surrendered the cause of the refugees by inducting all those who have turned down their issues (by stressing “Kashmir issue is bigger problems for the state government) in the all party committee (APC).
The chief minister showing his commitance to the cause of the refugees has announced an eight-member committee though very late. However, his initiative has been taken by certain quarters just as an attempt to bring chicken before the cat. These quarters fear how those who had already opposed the supporting voices for the rights of refugees will justify the genuineness of the refugees’ issues and grievances.
Chief minister has shouldered the responsibility of discussing the refugees issue in details to the eight -member committee comprising Minister for Health and Medical Education Mangat Ram Sharma, Minister for Agriculture and Cooperatives Abdul Aziz Zargar, former minister and leaders of opposition Abdul Rahim Rathre, Minister for Transport Hakeem Mohd Yaseen, CPI (M) leaders M Y Tarigami, Chairman JKNPP Bhim Singh, Ashwani Kumar JSM MLA Bishnah and Jugal Kishore BJP-MLA.
The reaction to the All Party Meet on May 12 this year from valley based leadership on refugees is a known fact to all and the mindset of some the committee members including Zargar, Rather and Tarigami cutting across the party lines stood jointly against issues of refugees and alleged it as an attempt to create demographic change in the Jammu region to defend its stand of more seats.
Not only the Jammuites are feeling concerned on the nomination of the committee members but the refugees and the related organizations too are speculative about the outcome as the All Party Committee that has the veteran politicians from valley as constituent members who already had been swords drawn with those who raised the voices of refugees. These veteran during the proceedings of the All Party Meeting called by the non other but the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad him have openly tried to gag the voice of the Refugees from the Jammu region describing it will bring a demographic change within the state. Now all with their fingers crossed are waiting for the outcome of the deliberations of this high level committee regarding the settling of the issues related to the West Pakistan, PoK, 1965 and 1971 Refugees and other issues.
One of the young Turks, included among the house of the political veterans, Ashwani Kumar MLA Bishnah talking to The Early Times said that as he has been raising the issue of the refugees in and out of the Assembly, he will continue this with the same spirit in this meet. When asked if he knew result of the battle he is going to fight for, Ashwani said that though he was known to the issues of the refugees of all kinds who suffered forced migration and now settled in Jammu but the various representing organizations too have submitted their memorandum of demands to him that will serve the purpose to him. Expressing heartfelt sympathies to refugees, Ashwani assured that he will try his best to get justice for the refugees who had been uprooted from their native places by clarifying the misconception related to their issues.
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