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Non-migrant pandits register protest, seek minority status 8/25/2015 11:43:18 PM Javaid Naikoo Early Times Report Srinagar, Aug 25: The non-migrant pandit while accusing the government of ignoring them have demanded minority status. Scores of pandit owing allegiance to "Hindu Welfare Society Kashmir" today held a protest demonstration here to press their demands which include minority status for the community and passage of long pending Shrines and Temples Bill in the next assembly session. The protesting pundits said the government has been selling the `Bring pundits back' slogan but the non- migrant Kashmiri Pandits were always ignored.The governments according to them never pay heed to the long pending four Demands. The demands include Rehabilitation of internally displaced people, separate employment package for youth, passage of shrines/Temples Bill and Minority status to Pandits. General Secretary of Hindu Welfare Society Kashmir Chuni LaL Bhat Bhat said that after passage of Shrines and Temple Bill, look after of shines and temples; accounts and management of Shrines and Temples across the Kashmir should be handed over to Pandits living in Kashmir. Agitating Pandits who were carrying placards and banners said that non-migrant Kashmiri Pandits living a miserable life are being ignored and neglected by successive state governments. An aged protestor said that keeping in view all the socio-political circumstances prevailing in the state and future of non- migrant KPs, seeking minority status has become a compulsion for them. Pandits said that there are around 250 non migrant KP's who are unemployed and facing hardships, However, like all other issues, this demand has also not been met. They said that state government had constructed tenements for internally displaced Kashmiri Pandits of the Valley at Mattan in Anantnag district and Sheikhpura in Budgam district but these were being given to migrant Pandits returning to Kashmir under the Prime Minister's job package. Describing it an injustice to the native pundits, they said that they are paying high rentals on private accommodation across Kashmir. They said that government must resolve this problem as 61 families are suffering.Meanwhile sources confirmed early times that the Chief Minister Mufti Muhammad Syed has already agreed to give Minority status to non-migrant Kashmiri Pandits.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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