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| KPs resolve to intensify movement for passage of shrines bill | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 5: Several Kashmiri Pandit organizations have resolved to intensify the movement for introduction and passage of Kashmiri Hindu Temples and religious places protection, maintenance and management bill, in the current session of J&K State Legislature. A meeting of the representatives of various KP organizations, conveyed by Prem Nath Bhat Memorial Trust, held at Kashmiri Pandit Sabha hall here, decided to start with holding a mass dharna on Monday March 12 from outside Jammu press club, to highlight the demand. Prem Nath Bhat Memorial Trust has been assigned the responsibility to act as nodal body for chalking out the action plan and taking steps to get the bill passed in the state legislature. There was a general consensus that the community shall have to take more direct steps and come to the streets to ensure the protection of religious places of migrant, KPs in Kashmir. The temples, Shrines and other religious places of Kashmiri Hindus in Kashmir have been vandalized encroached upon and sold by some unscrupulous elements, during last 22 years of forced mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the valley, it was observed. Under this background the KPs have been demanding constitution of a statutory body for protection, maintenance and management of Hindu religious property in Kashmir, on the pattern of Auqaf Islami, Gurduwara Prabandhak Boards and Committees, to protect and manage their respective religious places. The members of PNBM Trust gave resume of the steps taken so far to achieve the objective. It has held seminars, conferences, corner meetings, media conferences besides meetings leaders of various political parties and legislators, urging them to take up the issue in the legislature. Those who have assured the community members of their support in the matter and even taking lead in the resolution to come up and passed in the legislature include Revenue Minister, Raman Bhalla, Agriculture Minister, G.H.Mir, PDP patron Mufti Mohd Sayeed, CPI (MLA) M.Y. Tarigami, some BJP and NC MLAs. Despite assurances made publicly from all these quarters the bill is not moved in the assembly either by the government or by any private member, the meeting regretted. Hence it resolved to intensify the movement to achieve the objective. |
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