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| KP’s return impossible without political empowerment | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU: Pt. Moti Kaul, President All India Kashmiri Samaj (AIKS) took serious concern about dilly dallying tactics of the government regarding passing of the Kashmiri Hindu Shrines and Temples Bill. Despite many assurances the bill has been lingering for so long and it seems that the government is not at all interested to take up the bill in the present session of Assembly.
Addressing media persons at Jammu Kaul said “We are aware of the forces that are bent upon stalling this bill to be passed. This time Kashmir Pandits will not allow assembly session to be concluded without passing the Bill”. Kaul said that during the assembly session all pressures will be built up to force the government to make ways to table the bill in forthcoming assembly session. KPs will come on the roads and fight tooth and nail during forthcoming assembly session to take this struggle to the logical conclusion. He appealed all Kashmiri Pandit organizations to be ready for collective struggle to push the government to pass the bill unhindered.
Regarding the employment package for the Kashmiri Pandit unemployed youths, Pt. Moti Kaul said that All India Kashmiri Samaj welcomes any move that is taken in the interest of the community. However when these posts were advertised, unlawful conditionality were attached with it. Attaching and fixing draconian, inhuman and insensitive conditions along with the package have virtually made it doubtful about its sincerity in implementation of the package. There is no provision for those youths in the employment package who over-aged during these 20 years. Besides, “our biggest concern is the security of those employed youths who will have to stay at far flung areas in Kashmir. It is also painful that after twenty years of exile the government has come with the definition of a migrant and internally displaced persons which has created nothing but confusions”, added Kaul.
Appealing to the apex committee members to rise above the party line and genuinely respond to the challenges which the community is facing, Kaul said that community have the moral duty to put the problems of the community in the right perspective before the government. While the Govt. gave lot of assurances, but it is yet, to see their implementation on the ground. The sincerity of the government shall depend on how they can make apex body genuinely relevant. Regarding the return of displaced members, Kaul reiterated that unless the Kashmiri Pandits are .politically empowered, the return can not be possible. KPs have always suffered in absence of political space in J & K state. AIKS has recently announced its advisory board of prominent KPs for J & K state which included Dr. K .L. Chowdhury, B. L. Bhat, B. L. Saraf, LK Raina, Sham Koul and P. N. Goja.
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