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| Handing over SASB to Kashmiri Pandits sought | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | June 27
Expressing serious concern over the developments in Jammu and Kashmir on land transfer to SASB, Senior PDP leader Dr Roop Lal Sharma has demanded the handing over of the board to Kashmiri Pandits for management.
In a statement issued here on Friday, Dr Roop Lal Sharma has said that the controversy has given a bad name to the state both at national and international levels, adding it does not augur well for the secular character of the state and the government should act fast to resolve the issue before it snowballs into a major communal flare-up.
Dr Roop Lal Sharma has said that Amarnath Shrine belongs to state particularly Kashmiri Pandits who are the aborigines of the state and the local population of the area who had been managing the affairs of the shrine for the past many decades.
He said that only Kashmiri Pandits have the right to manage the affairs of the Shrine besides the local population of Maliks of Batkote so that the yatra is not communalized by some vested interests in the administration.
Dr Sharma has also warned the communal elements within the Muslim and Hindu society to refrain from giving the yatra a communal colour and has condemned the attack on tourists in Kashmir besides killing of a Kashmiri youth in the police firing in Kashmir. Elaborating further Dr Roop Lal Sharma said that the affairs of the shrine should be entrusted to select Kashmiri Pandits comprising known Journalists, Lawyers and known social activists adding the political class should be kept at an arms length from the board.
Dr Roop Lal Sharma also said that even Kashmiri Pandit leaders who are affiliated to various groups should be consulted but not given the reins because that will further divide the community thus harming the interests of the shrine board.
Dr Roop Lal Sharma has also called for an end to violence and asked Muslim brethren not to fall prey to some over zealous communalists who were vitiating the secular character of Kashmiris thereby damaging the reputation the world over.
He said such incidents would take the situation back to 1990s thus causing immense damage to the economy of the Kashmiris. |
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