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| CM to handover orders to displaced youth today, some Apex members to boycott function | | | Early Times REPORT
Jammu, Dec 4: Some members of Apex Committee on Kashmiri Pandits will boycott today's function being organized by Government at Chief Minister's residence to handover the appointment orders to displaced youth.
Though the Government has extended the invitations to all the Apex Committee members for attending the function to be held at CM residence here, some of them have declined the offer and refused to attend the function.
However the majority Apex Committee members affiliated to ruling alliance will take part in the function. According to sources the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah will handover the appointment orders to the newly recruited displaced youth appointed under PM's employment package here tomorrow. The function is likely to attended by his senior Cabinet Colleagues including the Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation, Raman Bhalla.
The NC led coalition has chosen December 5 the birthday of Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah for handing over of the appointment orders for 2700 displaced youth tomorrow.
The Apex Committee members boycotting tomorrow's function are opposed to linking of employment package with the return of the community to Kashmir Valley. ``The situation in Kashmir is not conducive for the return of the displaced Pandits '' said a senior leader of community and Apex Committee member who has decided not to attend the meeting.
“We will be held answerable by the members of the community in case any mishap takes place in Kashmir after the youth join their duties in the Valley'', he said, adding the ground situation has not changed for the minority Pandits there as the violence has not ended and the militants and separatists continue to rule the roost.
He said even the violence broke out in Valley today also and a school bus was torched by the urchins and unruly mob. This shows that there is no improvement in the ground situation in the Valley, he added.
The community was not opposed to the employment of the youth ``but we have been demanding their adjustment at safer places till normalcy is fully restored in the Valley'', said another member of the Apex Committee who too will stay away from the function. This is total exploitation of the community youth who till date have been deprived of their rights by both the Central and state governments, he said, adding ``we did not come out of Valley on our sweet will but were forced by militants and separatists to flee on gun point''. ``Moreover it was totally the failure of the Government to ensure the protection and safety of the hapless minorities in Valley after the spurt of militancy there in 1989-90 that led to mass exodus of the community''. .
He said now the Government is trying to take the community back to Valley by hook or by crook without thinking about the ground realities and by exploiting the unemployment of the youth. Exploiting the sentiments of the community by luring some jobs to its youth in lieu of its return to Valley is slated to have serious repercussions, he added and demanded that foolproof security arrangements be made for the security of the youth especially women candidates.
Another senior KP leader and a protagonist of a separate Homeland for seven lakh Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley said that the Government could have adjusted the displaced youth in the safer zones for time being. But it failed to discuss the issue with the genuine leaders of the community and tried to create a wedge in it by luring the youth on the name of jobs.
Moreover the NC led coalition was trying to take the political mileage of the package as the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah chose to handover the orders to the displaced youth on the birth anniversary of his grandfather late Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah, he said. |
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