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| Let Yasin Malik first reduce trust deficit | | Seminar on Pandits' return | | Early Times Report
Jammu,Mar 26:-The JKLF,led by Mohd.Yasin Malik,has decided to hold a seminar in Srinagar in the third week of next month to debate on ways and means for encouraging Pandits to return to Kashmir.Malik plans to invite elderly Pandits from the plains,intellectuals,politicians and academicians from Kashmir and other prominent citizens to ponder over the main issue related to the return of the displaced Pandits to the valley.The topic of discussion was going to be Kashmiri Pandit Baayun ki vaapsi(return of Kashmiri Pandit brethern).
Notwithstanding criticism against yasin from Pandit quarters one may be tempted to treat the JKLF plan as a healthy change in its strategy,designs and ideology.In fact if not right from 1990,when over 3.50 lakh Pandits migrated to the plains,but from 1996,when the Assembly elections were held after a gap of nine years and an elected Government was installed that the idea of return of Pandits to the valley surfaced in various political and social circles.
Between 1996 and 2010,when the state remained under the National Conference,PDP-Congress and Congress-NC rule,apart from various NGOs and other agencies the state Government too initiated various moves for encouraging Pandits to return to the valley.
However,certain events held the Pandits back.When some separatists saw the Government making a sincere effort for motivating Pandits to return to Kashmir some among them would start announcing that Pandits were welcome if they joined the freedom struggle.This and other security and militancy related events and incidents discouraged those pandits who had given in writing to the Government that they were willing to return.
The Government achieved a slight degree of success when it implemented the Prime Minister's employment package for the displaced families.Under this package over 2,000 youths returned to the valley after accepting the appointment order issued by the Government departments.More would have r eturned had the state Government implemented another portion of the package under which wage bill for another 3,000 jobs was to be met by the state Government.
The state Government implemented the one clause of the package under which the central Government was to meet the wage bill of 3,000 posts.
Majority of displaced families are not sure about the security scenario on the plea that it continues to fluctuate on a day to day basis.These families do not want to return simply to face another exodus.That is one of the reasons for a major section of the displaced people to demand homeland for the nationalist forces within the valley.
If there has been delay in the return of the pandits to Kashmir it is the result of lack of efforts on the part of those political leaders who have a say among the gun toting youths and other mischief mongers for securing assurances on good conduct when the displaced people were back in Kashmir. Observers argue that return of Pandits can be possible if people and separatists in the valley initiate serious moves.
Those who want Pandits to return need not treat it simply a Government baby.The Government alone cannot encourage and motivate Pandits to return to Kashmir because they know that the state and the central agencies remained helpless spectators when they were hounded out of the valley.
If Pandits have, hitherto,developed cold feet to Government move on taking them back to Kashmir it is the r esult of trust deficit between them and the people in Kashmir.It is result of trust deficit between Pandits and their pre-exodus neighbours.Once Yasin Malik succeeds in removing or reducing this trust deficit his services will be lauded not only in the national but in the international fora.
It would be better for other separatists to lend a helping hand to Mailk in his task of arranging a reunion of the two principal communities after a gap of 21 years.Malik and others need to create an atmosphere that will be conducive for the return of Pandits.
As far as the Government efforts are needed it should reserve seats for Pandits in Government departments and in professional colleges besides making available flats and quarters for which the Pandits may not be asked even to spend a penny. This way the required infrastructure has to be rebuilt and if it was done the task of people like Yasin Mailk can be made easy
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