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| Hina supports citizenship rights for Pak refugees | | 'BJP wants to end discriminative politics pursued by NC' | | Kunal Shrivatsa
Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 13: While the clamour is growing in Kashmir's political circles over the proposed move to grant incentives and citizenship rights to West Pakistan refugees settled in the plains of Jammu, the state unit of the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), which has already welcomed the proposal, is also getting backing from its leadership from the Valley as it seems that they are not averse to the idea of extending much delayed benefits to lakhs of refugees.
Though one of the bold and outspoken BJP leader from Kashmir, Dr Hina Bhat, who unsuccessfully contested recently concluded Assembly polls from Amirakadal Assembly constituency in Srinagar city, while talking to Early Times didn't make a direct mention of refugees' permanent settlement but she linked it with the discrimination with the people of three regions by the successive state governments particularly those led by National Conference.
Hina clearly stated that once more the propagators of discrimination with the three divisions of the state are trying to unleash another attempt to get prejudiced with one of the regions which has created imbalance in development sphere in the past.
"Being a BJP representative, I will stand with my party's line…I would root for an end to discrimination of any kind with all the three regions…Jammu, Kashmir or Ladakh should be treated on equal parameters. The balance needs to be maintained among all the regions… Don't put geographical boundaries," said Hina Bhat.
"BJP wants to put an end to such discriminative politics in between the state being pursued by the National Conference all through these years," she added.
Pertinently, ever since the recommendations made by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs to grant 'permanent resident' status to refugees from erstwhile West Pakistan, settled in Jammu and Kashmir, the mainstream political parties as well as the separatists are bitterly opposing the move saying that it is a ploy to alter the demography of the state.
The Kashmir based political groups including National Conference (NC), Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) and separatists one after the another have openly castigated centre's purported move to give citizenship and voting rights to West Pakistan refugees. The NC on Saturday described the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs' recommendation to settle refugees from West Pakistan in Jammu and Kashmir as a "wicked conspiracy." |
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