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| Coalition govt ignoring Sikh community, alleges GMGS | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, April 20:
Various Sikh organisations in the Kashmir valley have castigated the present coalition government headed by National conference for ignoring the plight of the minority Sikh community.
In an emergency meeting held today various Sikh organisations under the banner of Guru Manyo Granth Society (GMGS) termed the policies of the state government towards the minority Sikh community as discriminatory.
The President of the Society Jasdeep Singh said that when Omar Abdullah was sworn in as the chief minister of the state of Jammu and Kashmir his father and the patron of the ruling party Farooq Abdullah had promised the Sikh community that their genuine demands would be redressed, but more than two years have passed and still the Sikhs’ demands have not been fulfilled.
Jasdeep Singh said that the minority Sikh community despite facing various hardships in Kashmir decided against migration and stayed with their Muslim brethren and while the government was extending various packages to those who left their motherland for safety the minority Sikh community was left in a lurch.
Singh said that it was discriminatory on part of the Omar Abdullah led coalition government that not a single representative of the Sikh community from the Kashmir valley has been given a berth in the government, state assembly or the state legislative council.
Singh warned the government to take immediate steps to redress the genuine demands of the community otherwise the community would be left with no other option but to resort to the agitation and in connection with this the leaders of the community would observe a day long token hunger strike both in Srinagar, Jammu and New Delhi.
The community would also submit a memorandum to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to get their attention towards the miseries of the Sikh community in Kashmir.
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