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| Taking Pandits back to valley a Govt. conspiracy: Panun Kashmir | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 5 :While the state Government is excited over the possibility of 3,000 Kashmiri Pandit migrant youths joining services in Srinagar soon after the selection list is out within one week,Panun Kashmir,a premier organisation of the displaced people,leadership is apprehensive of the scheme of facilitating return of the migrants to Kashmir.Return to Kashmir which they had left in 1990 following rise of militancy in the valley.
There are more than 400 Pandit families that have informed the Government about their willingness to return to Kashmir provided they had suitable arrangements for lodging.However,Chairman Panun Kashmir,Dr Ajay Chrungoo,treats the Government plan of taking Pandits back to Kashmir by providing jobs to the unemployed youth a "conspiracy."He says that he still doubts whether all those selected will stay in Kashmir because "the security and political situation in the valley is quite disturbing."
His colleagues have yet another story to tell.They say that since the National Conference led Government has bracketed those who migrated from remote districts of the valley to Srinagar with the Pandit displaced families Government jobs,meant for the displaced youth,could be given to the members of the majority community whom the Government has treated as internally displaced people.
A number of Panun Kashmir activists said that one could not rule out the possibility of forcing Pandit boys,accepting Government jobs in Srinagar ,to flee from the valley which could help youth belonging to the majority community to grab those posts.They said on one hand the Government has been declaring,day in and day out,that Jamm,Ladakh and Kashmir were integral part of the state on the other Pandits were being forced to accept jobs only in Kashmir as if Jammu and Ladakh do not belong to them.
Dr Ajay Chrungoo said that the plan of the state and the centre to forcibly take back Pandits to the valley could prove counter productive.He said who would not be willing to go back to their hearths and homes they abandoned under threat from the extremists if a proper atmosphere was built ?He said the Government is wrong if it treats the exodus of the Pandits as a mere law and problem adding that it was part of "ethnic cleansing plan."He said that as far as the programme of taking Pandits back to the valley was concerned the state and the central Governments should have first discussed it with leaders of various organisations of the displaced people and with the prominent citizens in Kashmir..
He said if the atmosphere in Kashmir valley had been conducive for the Pandits why the number of Pandits,who had not migrated in 1990,had decreased from 17,000 to 2,000.He said the Government could have first initiated measures for ameliorating the lot of the displaced families living in Jammu,Nagrota and even in Delhi and other states.He said that the Government could exploit a situatuion that may arise if Pandits refuse to return to Kashmir.In such a case the Government may start alleging that Pandits were not willing to return to Kashmir because they were for the greener pastures in the plains.He said the reality is that Pandits have no reason to feel safe once they return to Kashmir when members of the majority community continue to feel unsafe because of the activities of militants and the separatists.
Ajay Chrungoo said that attempts were being made to demoralise the security forces and this campaign could force the security agencies to lower their guard.Once it happened people,irrespective of their religion,could be unsafe in Kashmir.
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