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Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Jun 15: For a change, it were neither the government employees with their demand of hike in salaries nor the separatist activists demanding Azadi but men, women and children of the displaced Kashmiri Pandit community who were lifted from a demonstration at Civil Secretariat and driven all the way to Zeethiyar Temple, close to Raj Bhawan.
Seeking an assurance from none other than Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, the KP demonstration expressed dismay over non-implementation of the PM’s package that had promised them government jobs and other benefits. They walked all the way to the main entrance of Civil Secretariat, displayed placards and shouted slogans while stressing on immediate implementation of the PM’s package.
Even as the security officials did not allow them to enter the guarded premises and several officials offered them a meeting with Deputy Chief Minister and Chief Secretary, they refused to oblige the authorities and insisted on a meeting with the CM. They did not withdraw even after the officials explained to them that the CM was chairing two-day-long meeting of a reconstruction Task Force on J&K in New Delhi. They said that Dy CM and CS had earlier this year given them assurance of the redressal of their grievance but the PM’s package for them was never implemented.
Scores of KPs, including women and children, under the leadership of R.K.Bhat, President All India Kashmiri Samaj (youth wing) and Bharat Raina, President United Kashmiriyat Forum organized a sit-in in front of CM secretariat and raised their voice against the non implementation of PM’s Package. Police swung into action and arrested the protestors who were later dropped on the premises of Zeethiyar Temple, where most of them have been staying..
Earlier while addressing the demonstrators, R K Bhat and Bharat Raina expressed regrets for the dilly dallying tactics of state government which has added to the pangs of the community members.
They further said that thousands of KP youth were jobless and the implementation of package could well bring some sort of relief for them.
They shouted slogans against the government and assailed what they dismissed as “Government’s weak policies vis-à-vis the community.
AIKS chief, R K Bhat, said that the demonstrators would wait for an appointment with CM till late in the afternoon on Tuesday. “If we are denied a meeting with the CM, we’ll arrange a press conference and return to Jammu”, R K Bhat told Early Times and asserted that the agitation of the minority community members would continue. He said it was strange that the recommendations sent by the Centre about a year ago had never been implemented by the NC government.
Meanwhile, All Parties Migrant Coordination Committee (APMCC) has condemned the illegal selling and felling of trees by some anti-social elements within the Kashmiri Pandit community in connivance with the local anti-social elements of Verinaag (Vistata) and warned the ‘black sheep’ within KP community to desist from treating temples of Kashmir Valley as their fiefdom or else the organization would launch a direct action against them.
In a statement Chairman of APMCC Vinod Pandit said that some black-sheep within the community conspired with the local anti-social elements to sell off the trees belonging to Vitasta temple to earn a fast buck.
Vinod said that he came to know about the heinous act and immediately swung into action to save the temple property from being sold off adding the SHO Dooru Mohd Farooq Reshi took serious note of the development and seized 8 logs of the felled trees.
Vinod complimented the SHO saying he handed over the temple trees to local chowkidar for safety and has assured that no such action would be allowed in future.
Meanwhile Vinod Pandit has said that Kashmiri Pandits must shunt out such black-sheep within the community who have no concerned for the tradition, culture or heritage and can stoop to any level to fill their pockets even if that means selling off the temple property.
Vinod also appealed the local Muslim brethren to keep watch over such elements who were destroying the cultural heritage of Pandits in Valley. |
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