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| Displaced KPs get support from High Court Bar | | Significant development | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 17: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association (JKHCBA), Jammu, the other day came down heavily on those in Kashmir who were opposing the return of the internally displaced Kashmiri Pandits to their original habitat, Kashmir and said that it was their fundamental and natural right to resettle in the Valley as they are original inhabitants of Kashmir. The JKHCBA, Jammu, extended its full support to the demand of separate homeland voiced by displaced Kashmiri Hindus for their resettlement in the Kashmir valley, it said after a meeting which was chaired by the Association president, Abhinav Sharma, and added that it was imperative for the State Government to "involve representatives of Pandits in any plan which seeks their resettlement in the Valley".
The members of the JKHCBA, who met in Jammu on Thursday to take stock of the political situation arising out of what had been happening in the state in general and Kashmir Valley in particular, including the opposition of separatists and all Kashmiri parties to the Union Government's reported move to create separate colonies for the Kashmiri Pandits, condemned statements frequently issued and made by separatists in the Valley while opposing the return and resettlement of minority Hindus in a separate township. "Both the Central and State Governments are responsible for allowing the Hurriyat Conference to organise anti-national rallies," they said. They urged the government to "adopt a concrete policy after taking into confidence the migrant community".
That the JKHCBA extended its full support to the Kashmiri Pandit cause was a major political development in the state in the sense that it was after a very long time that any organization of such a repute and prominence did so and did so in so many words. Earlier, the JKHCBA adopted a resolution asking the State and Central Government to establish the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)-like institute in Jammu, instead of Kashmir, as Kashmir already had AIIMS-like institute. It expressed its solidarity with those in Jammu who had been opposing the decision to set up the sanctioned AIIMS in Pulwama, Kashmir, and declared that it would not fail the people of Jammu region.
It is pertinent to mention here that almost all the Kashmiri Pandits quit the Valley in early 1990 to escape their physical liquidation at the hands of the believers in the concept of Kashmiriyat and save their religion, culture and dignity. Ever since then, they have been living in refugee camps in Jammu and elsewhere in the country. They have been demanding a separate homeland in the Valley invested with Union Territory status where the Indian Constitution could flow freely. They have been saying, and rightly so, that they cannot co-exit with those who forced them to quit their homes following their refusal to become part of the anti-India movement that was going in the Valley. |
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