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| Govt not sincere towards Pandits return to homeland: KPs | | | EARLY TIMES Report
JAMMU, June 11: Hitting back at Chief Minister Omar Abdullah for stating that decision regarding return of displaced Kashmiri Pandits lies with the community and the government can't force any in this regard, Kashmiri Pandits today alleged that in real sense the Government was not at all interested in the return of the community to valley as it never gave any thought to the community's demand on a separate homeland within Valley.
The community is always willing to return to Kashmir Valley but not in fragments and isolated places where they have been living prior to their mass migration in 1989-90, said Ramesh Manwati a strong votary of homeland movement for seven lakh KPs within Valley.
``Our struggle is based on homeland after the majority community rejected the co-existence and composite culture in 1989-90 when they at the behest of Pakistan and militants forced us to flee from the Valley'', he said, adding the community's struggle for separate homeland within Valley will continue to it reaches to its logical conclusion.
NC has been mainly responsible for the present plight of the community as the party was ruling the state in 1989 when terrorism and gun culture started in Valley. It was due to its wrong policies that led to present turmoil in Kashmir and mass exodus of minority Pandits from Valley., he added.
Ridiculing those elements who accuse the former Governor Jagmohan for the mass exodus of Pandits, Manvati said that the migration had started during the rule of coalition NC -Congress Government in Valley soon after the kidnapping episode of Rubia Syed the daughter of Mufti Mohamemd Syed.
A sizeable number of Pandits had fled the Valley by the time Mr Jagmohan took over in January 1990, he said adding that it was Jagmohan who practiclay worked to tame the terrorists and secessionists by launching an offensive operation against them to curb their activities.
Justifying the demand Kundan Kashmiri president Kashmiri Pandit Conference (KPC) who along with a delegation of his organization visited Kashmir said that the community stands for settlement at a single place and not in the habitations where they have been living prior to 1989 as this experience has proved totally wrong.
``We are not averse to return but it should be on our conditions'', he said, adding `` Kashmir belongs to us and we are its aborigines but we are for settlement at one place and not in clusters''.
Kashmiri , while accusing the government of usurping the rights of the community said the condition of theHindu religious places in Valley is deplorable and land of many religious places have been encroached upon by the anti social elements and land mafia. This has happened due to Government's failure to enact a law for constitution of Board on Hindu shrines despite its promise.
Challenging the Government's sincerity on return Vir Saraf , of Roots in Kashmir said that Government was hoodwinking the public opinion on Pandits issue. He accused the Government of its total failure in preparing a blue print on Pandits rehabilitation in Valley and discuss the same with the community.
Saraf also accused the Central Government of being total insensitive to Pandits problems saying by playing the card of Muslim appeasement at the cost of nationalist forces in the state the central Government was playing with the national cause in J&K. |
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