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| Kashmiri Sikh community accuses NC-Cong coalition of neglect | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 21: Various Sikh organisations in the Kashmir valley have castigated National Conference –Congress coalition government for ignoring minority Sikh community.
In an emergency meeting held today, various Sikh organisations under the banner of Guru Manyo Granth Society termed the policies of the state government towards the minority Sikh community as discriminatory. President of the Society Jasdeep Singh said that when Omar Abdullah was sworn in as Chief Minister, 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, they said that their demands are yet to be fulfilled.
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, 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. Sikh community he said is less than two per cent of the total population of the state, but despite the government was non serious in providing the minority status to the Sikh community.
Jasdeep Singh said that various self-proclaimed leaders of the Sikh community for their own vested interests have been compromising with the state government and not thinking for the larger interest of the community. 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 the Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to get their attention towards the miseries of the sikh community in Kashmir.
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