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| Pandits decry continued raw deal being given to them | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Sep 7: Leaders of various organisations of displaced people from Kashmir have expressed deep concern and dismay over the continued raw deal being given to the internally displaced people during the last over 21 years.
These leaders belong to the two factions of the Panun Kashmir,All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference said that "in all walks of life we are being given a step motherly treatment. The KP leaders referred to the constitution of the Board of Directors of the Jammu and Kashmir Bank and said that not a single Kashmiri Pandit was on the Board of Directors. One of the leaders said that since the Bank was opened in the state between one to two prominent Kashmiri Pandits used to be on the Board of Directors.
The Pandit leaders said that after the migration of over 3.50 lakh Hindus from the Kashmir valley in 1990 most of them had opened their accounts in the Jammu and Kashmir Bank and this very issue gives the Pandits the right to be on the Board of Directors of the Bank.They demanded the reconstitution of the Board of Directors so that first of all representatives of the communities of Pandits and Sikhs were kept on the Board of the Directors of the lead Bank in the state.
They said that another thing that awaits the Government attention was giving representation to other communities and ethnic groups, including those belonging to the Gujjars,Paharis,SCs,STS and OBC in the Bank Board. They said the constitution could be amended so that the existing strength of the Board of Directors was increased to accommodate people belonging to various ethnic groups.
Panun Kashmir Chairman,Dr Ajay Chrungoo,and senior leader of All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference,H.L.Chatha,said that it was a matter of deep concern that Pandits had no representation in either of the two Houses of Parliament and the state Legislature. They said that if the ruling coalition leaders and the senior state Government functionaries perused the records they will find that Parliament and the state Legislature had Pandit representation for several decades.
"If it was so what went wrong to isolate Pandits now ?" Dr Chrungoo asked. He wanted the ruling coalition leaders to examine the previous records and if they do they will find that the state had cabinet, right from 1948,had a Pandit representative but after the demise of P L Handoo not a single Pandit had been given a seat in the cabinet. It was only between 2003 and 2005 that Raman Mattoo had been inducted as a junior minister in the council of ministers headed by Mufti Mohd Sayeed.
Chrungoo and others equally expressed concern over the r aw deal being given to the Sikhs who too find not representation in council of ministers and in the Parliament. They wanted the Government to initiate suitable measures so that whatever wrong had been done to the Pandits and the Sikhs were reversed and the two communities were given a chance to show their worth as legislators and as members of various Government bodies.
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