Panun Kashmir hails resolution on displaced Kashmiri Pandits

Tribune News Service

Jammu, January 22

A faction of Panun Kashmir, while hailing the recent resolution passed by the Legislative Assembly, said it was the acknowledgement of fact by the government that Pandits were forced to leave the Valley.

Addressing a press conference, Panun Kashmir president Ashwani Chrangoo said, “The organisation notes with satisfaction that for the first time the Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Council of the state have acknowledged the exodus of the community due to militancy.”

“Political class of the J&K has a remembrance of displaced community, yet it has failed to identify the reasons for the ethnic cleansing and neither it spelt out the forces that were responsible for the mass exodus of Pandits from the Valley,” Chrangoo said.

The organisation has said that the Hurriyat Conference had no business to oppose the settlement of the community in the Valley. “All those who have been taking dictations from Pakistan’s ISI cannot dictate to the primary stakeholders regarding their mode of resettlement in Kashmir,” the organisation claimed.

Meanwhile, Youth All India Kashmiri Samaj has demanded the restructuring of the previous rehabilitation plans announced by the Central Government in 2005, 2008 and 2015. Youth All India Kashmiri Samaj president RK Bhat has called for the creation of a ‘smart city’ in the Valley for the rehabilitation of the community or treating PM package and non-PM package employees working in the Valley at par with other Kashmiri migrant employees till the final decision of return was not taken.