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| 2 yrs now, BJP fails to fulfil promises to WPRs | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, May 16: Identifying three sites for setting up colonies of displaced Kashmir Pandits in the Valley is a highly appreciable step but BJP led NDA Government at the Centre has not moved even an inch forward to solve unending problems of the West Pakistani refugees.
The so-called nationalist BJP, which was in the forefront of highlighting plights of these displaced people, has maintained a criminal silence on their human issue after getting power at the Centre and in the State.
The Union Government is going to complete two years in office within a week's time but no serious effort have been taken so far to give some rights to the West Pakistani Refugees, who had voted over-whelming to BJP in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. There is a feeling among these refugees that like other parties BJP too has betrayed them and renegade all promises, which the party had made with these refugees from time to time by the party leadership.
BJP leadership appears to be non-serious in addressing problems of the these refugees because Centre is virtually sitting on the report of a Parliamentary Panel that had recommended voting rights and compensation to these refugees
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs headed by Congress member P Bhattacharya had recommended that the Centre must impress upon J&K government to consider sympathetically the West Pakistani refugees' demand to grant them the status of permanent residents of the state, so that they could live in a dignity with all legal rights, including the right to exercise franchise. It had also recommended that the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) shall pursue with J&K government the possibility of granting reservation in the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council for West Pakistani refugees and if necessary might even amend the state's Constitution.
The Parliamentary Panel had also strongly recommended for early finalisation of one-time financial package of Rs 30 lakh to each family of West Pakistan refugees settled in Jammu and Kashmir.
The department related Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs was of the considered view that even if West Pakistan refugees cannot be equated with the Kashmiri Pandits migrants, but they deserve immediate relief and rehabilitation for sustenance without delay.
The Committee expressed its displeasure over the indifferent attitude of the Jammu and Kashmir government to the problems of West Pakistan refugees saying the state government has not furnished proposal to the Union Home Ministry to procure one-time financial package/ compensation to West Pakistan refugees who are otherwise in dire need of immediate relief and rehabilitation for sustenance.
Shocking when Parliamentary Panel had recommended voting rights and financial assistance for these refugees, BJP governments, both at the Centre and State have failed to take any step in this direction. |
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