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| Hindus reject dialogue offer, say talks only on separate homeland | | Kashmir Samiti Delhi meet | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 26: "Important" leaders of the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus met in Delhi on Friday under the banner of Kashmir Samiti to discuss the problems their community had been facing since their exile. Minister of State in PMO was also there for sometime. He addressed the community leaders and asked them to constitute a delegation of eight to ten representatives so that they could hold discussions with the Union Government their problems and demands. He left the venue after addressing the community leaders as he had some other engagement.
The suggestion of the minister found only a couple of takers (all close to BJP). All others stuck to the Margdarshan Resolution", which the exiled community had adopted in Jammu in 1991. Margdarshan Resolution condemns those who hounded the Kashmiri Hindus from the Valley and says the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus will not accept anything short of separate homeland in the Valley invested with Union Territory status so that the Indian Constitution could flow there freely. The displaced Kashmiri Hindus, like the people of Jammu and Ladakh, oppose Article 370 tooth. They say Article 370 has created "an Islamic republic" on the "secular Indian soil".
Countering the supporters of the minister's suggestion, the protagonists of separate homeland said that "those who disagreed with them could go to the Union Government, but they will not, as they were religiously committed to achieve the goal that was set by the Margdarshan Resolution". In fact, they renewed their demand with full vigor and resolved to achieve the goal at whatever cost. They were all critical of New Delhi. Some of them condemned the BJP and questioned its foreign policy as well as policy towards them, saying they were the original inhabitants of Kashmir whose aspirations were being neglected.
The Delhi meet of the community leaders could be described as a setback to those in the BJP and their supporters who had been working overtime to persuade the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus to return to the Valley to get themselves "absorbed in the Kashmiri milieu". It was also a setback to the separatists who wanted the Kashmiri Hindus to return to the localities they vacated in 1990 so that they could play their nefarious again. |
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