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| APSCC demands minority status for Sikhs | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, May 4: Reiterating its demand for granting minority status to the Sikhs of Jammu & Kashmir, All Parties Sikh Coordination Committee (APSCC) said that assurances given by top leadership of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) before the assembly elections should be fulfilled at the earliest.
According to press release, APSCC Chairman Jagmohan Singh Raina while addressing community members in different areas of South Kashmir said that the community members have pinned their hopes on PDP-BJP government for redressal of their grievances including granting of minority status. He said that it was only after that this assurance Sikhs across the state voted for PDP candidates in the last year's assembly elections.
"Sikhs voted for PDP after assurances given by its leaders including Finance Minister, Haseeb Drabu, R & B Minister, Altaf Bukhari and Member of Parliament Tariq Hameed Qarra. The manifesto of PDP endorsed that minority status should be given to the Sikh community by extending National Commission for Minorities Act to the Jammu & Kashmir state. We have already made it clear that nobody should dilute the extension of National Minority Act to Jammu & Kashmir," he said.
He stressed that government must fulfill the promises made with the Sikhs without any further delay. Referring to chief minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed as an old stalwart of Jammu & Kashmir he said that Mufti the capacity to redress issues of Sikh community. "Sikhs who shared sorrow and happiness with the majority community during all these years of turmoil need government support to uplift their economy. This can be done by placing the unemployed Sikh youth in both government and private sector. Sikhs do not have any political representation in the state particularly in valley, thus they do not have anyone to raise their issues on any political forum, "he added.
Raina expressed concern over the attack carried out by some miscreants on a Gurdwara in the Kishtwar area and demanded that stern action should be taken against the people who carried out the attack. He also expressed his resentment over the beating up of a female Sikh teacher by a parent of a child at a leading missionary school in Srinagar.
The APSCC Chairman said that the organization would strengthen its mass contact programme and carry out visit to the various areas of the state. |
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