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| KP groups resent registration of migrants anew, will trigger fresh exodus of minorities from Valley | |
Jammu, February 22, (Scoop News)-Several displaced Kashmiri Pandit organisatons have expressed dismay over the decision of ruling coalition of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) to commence registration anew of people from the valley as migrants by the Relief and Rehabilitation organization in Jammu.
“This is a dangerous move and it smacks of a larger conspiracy,” they alleged and said, “how come after a lapse of nearly a decade the authorities reopen the process?” In 2008, the authorities stopped fresh registration of displaced people from Kashmir on a plea to avert further fleeing of minorities.
According to a government notification issued recently, a screening committee is being constituted to recommend the registration of bona fide migrants who have migrated or may migrate due to threat to them or to their families from the militants.
The leaders of these organizations cautioned the Central Government that by starting registration anew of Kashmiri people would invariably prompt exodus of over 880 remaining Pandit families staying back in the Valley. ‘It seems government has realized that the remaining Pandits will be forced to flee by militants anytime in the near future,’ they asserted.
“The fresh process could also be exploited by political activists and others who would register themselves as ‘migrants’ and avail the benefits like cash and ration,” the leaders charged and said, it goes contrary to the official claims that ‘normalcy is returning to Kashmir and going back of Pandits to Valley is on the anvil .’
Nearly four hundred thousand Kashmiri Pandits got uprooted from their moorings in early 1990 after Islamists launched an armed struggle against India in Kashmir. About 70,000 families are registered as migrants that included over 6,500 Muslims and Sikhs. Over 17,500 families are receiving cash relief and free ration etc and they include about 3,000 political activists of Congress, PDP and National Conference.
Meanwhile, accusing the authorities, a spokesman of separatist Hurriyat (Mirwaiz faction) said that as far as the problems of the displaced persons were concerned the government was only giving shallow assurances and taking no solid measures in resolving their problems.
He demanded immediate redressal of all their problems faced by displaced (migrant) Pandits ahead of Mahashivratri. ... |
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