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| Government not serious in protecting, preserving KP’s temples, shrines: KPSS | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 12-Taking strong note of what happened in the just concluded budget session of the state Assembly over the pending Temple bill, KPSS has said that this clearly shows the malafide intentions of the State government that once again they deliberately brought the Temple Bill on the last day of the session. The bill was not even tabled even in the list. This clearly shows how the State Government is giving more and more time to those persons who are hell bent to destroy the identity of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley with respect to the temples.
In a statement the KPSS has said that ‘it is very unfortunate on the part of BJP legislators that they too did not raise their voice against the Government’s conspiracy for not passing the Temple Bill in the State Assembly. This shows that BJP, which claims it self the messiah of Kashmiri Pandits living outside the Valley is not actually willing to save the Minority religious places but cash the misdeeds of the State Government endlessly for their vote bank outside the State’.
‘The Government had not only faulted in providing protection to these temples along with their assets but in turn kept its hands off by sharing a policy of non-invention thus providing the miscreants and elements working against the secular, sovereign character of the State a free hand’, the statement alleged . The KPSS has also termed the statement of the government on the floor of the House on temples and religious places of KP’s as false and misleading and regretted that the Chief Minister has not gone through the statements and representations of various Kashmiri Pandit Organization both within and outside citing few examples of encroachments and desecrations of the temples in Kashmir Valley including Gouri Shankar temple, Barbar Shah, Srinagar, Gosoun Bagh at Hari Parbat, Baba Dharam Dass at Barbar Shah, Sheetal Bhairav Sheetal Nath ,Thameshwar Bhairav, Tumllahal, Pulwama.
In the recently conducted Census done by the KPSS across the Valley it was observed by the team that almost 90% of the temples of the Kashmiri Pandits have either been desecrated, looted, burnt and encroached or the centuries old idols have been stolen and sold in the mafia market by the unscrupulous elements during the past two decades of turmoil, the statement said.
The statement further alleged that the Government Departments, politicians of main stream political parties and the separatists in the Valley are either adopting the policy of non-intervention or are facilitating the illegal process. The KPSS demanded from the government to bring an Ordinance banning all the illegal sale deeds and encroachments since April 1990 till today and declaring all sale and lease deeds null and void. It has also demanded setting up of an inquiry commission to inquire as to how the temple properties have been illegally sold or leased out to the unscrupulous elements with the help of some government officials and those persons in the majority community who want to bring bad face on whole Kashmir society.
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