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| KP leaders demand better deal for displaced people | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Aug 7:Leaders of various Kashmiri Pandit (KP) organisations have urged the Government of India in general and the union Home Minister, P C Chidambaram, in particular to ensure that the internally displaced Kashmiris besides the people of the regions of Jammu and Ladakh were also covered under any political and economic package the centre has planned for buying peace in Kashmir.
Senior Panun Kashmir leader, Kuldeep Raina, said that whether during the initiation of fresh dialogues with all shades of political opinion the Government of India cannot exclude representatives of Kashmiri Hindus, of people of the Jammu and Ladakh regions from the gamut of the talks.
"We are a part of the state. We belong to the vale of Kashmir and whatever solution is found to the internal dimensions of the problem we have to be associated with it," Kuldeep Raina said.
Another veteran Kashmiri leader, H L Chatha, belonging to the All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference, said that for securing "our constitutional, political and economic rights we have decided to bring all Pandit organisations under one umbrella." He said that a delegation of prominent Pandit leaders would visit Delhi to meet Prime Minister, Union Home Minister and leaders of all national level political leaders in order to update them with "the plight of the displaced families."
Chatha said that "we will persuade the political leaders to keep in mind the interests of the displaced families.
"He too favoured that whatever political and economic package the centre envisaged for the people of Kashmir needed to be given to the Pandits and people of Jammu and Ladakh regions also. Both Chatha and Raina said that hitherto the successive Governments in the centre had demonstrated and displayed pro-Kashmir bias with the result displaced Pandit families, people of Jammu region and that of Ladakh had remained neglected.
They said first of all the centre should initiate measures that would reduce the level of discrimination, if it cannot be totally removed within a short time, of the people of the Jammu and Ladakh regions. Chairman Panun Kashmir, Dr Ajay Chrungoo, said that the pro-Kashmiri Muslim policies being adopted by the centre and the state Government has forced people of the regions of Jammu and Ladakh besides those belonging to the Kashmiri displaced families to believe that those who are nationalists receive a raw deal and those who cry for Azadi receive not only the economic packages but political patronage.
Chrungoo said that if the centre wanted mollification of people of Jammu region it should first of all persuade or force the state Government to set up a fresh delimitation commission so that the Jammu region had as many Assembly constituencies as that in the valley though on the basis of area and population Jammu deserved to have more Assembly segments.
This should be followed by an issuance of a white paper detailing reasons for poor share of the Pandits and those from the regions of Jammu and Ladakh in the Government services so that remedial measures were taken to give adequate representation this segment of people in the state jobs.
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