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| Omar's cold shoulder response to Pandit delegation generates debate among KPs | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 27: With Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, giving a cold shoulder response to a recent all party delegation of Kashmiri Pandits especially to their demand on formation of a Shrine Board for management of Hindu Shrines in Valley a long pending demand of the community has generated a debate among the KPs.
According to high placed sources the Chief Minister is reported to have told the delegation that government can't go ahead without consulting the other trusts and committees running the shrines and temples in Kashmir Valley. Though CM did not make any direct reference to Dharmarth Trust and other Hindu bodies which are looking after some income generating and world famous shrines in Kashmir but from his revelations the reference was obvious to these bodies.
The CM has categorically told the delegation that regarding the formation of Board he ahs to take into confidence the management committees of other shrines also despite the plea of the KP leaders that they can themselves talk to Sole Trustee of Dharmarth Trust Dr Karan Singh in this regard and seek his cooperation and support also.
The sources said the response of the Chief Minister ahs disheartened to the KP leaders to the extent that one of the senior Pandit leaders who had even been a freedom fighter and worked shoulder to shoulder with Sheikh Mohammed Abdullah as a student leader had said that he will prefer to be part of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) where from he will not expect such a cold shouldered response to the demand.
Sources said that the meeting with CM later became a debatable topic among the KP leadership and some of them were of the view that PDP leadership had never talked in such a way with any community delegation.
A Pandit leader was of the view that it was Mufti Mohammed Syed who initiated construction of quarters for the return of Pandits in Valley for the first time and during his tenure the quarters were constructed at Mattan in Anantnag, Tulmulla in Ganderbal and Sheikhpora in Badgam districts. Not only this but the former Chief Minister and PDP pattern during his tenure as CM visited migrant camps at Jammu and later next year at Delhi on the Shiv Ratri to greet the community members. He not only distributed the walnuts among them but also pursued them to cooperate with the government in restoration of normalcy in Kashmir so that both communities can live as earlier in peace and complete harmony.
He said in comparison to this the present CM is on record to say that Pandits have leadership crisis and among four Pandits three have leaders. This is not for the first time that Omar Abdullah has made such a remark about the community but in past too had made such comments. Mr Abdullah as NC chief also made such a remark during his visit to migrant Camp Mishriwala where while addressing gathering of the community said those Pandits have many organizations and the community is not united. At that time he was accompanied by his father and present patriarch of the Party Dr Farooq Abdullah, sources added.
So this is not the first remark from the CM about the community but it is a routine affair on his party said a KP leader. He said why does not Omar Abdullah made such a remark about the majority community in Kashmir who too have mushroom number of organizations and leaders.
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