Excelsior Correspondent
NAGROTA, Jan 29: National Conference Provincial president, Devender Singh Rana today exhorted upon Lieutenant Governor of J&K UT, Manoj Sinha to take a considerate view with regard to demands of the Kashmiri Pandit migrants, residing at Jagti Township, who are on sit-in dharna for the past over four months.
“Till their safe and honourable return to their homes and hearths in the Valley, every effort is needed to be made to mitigate the sufferings of the migrants”, Rana said during his visit to the Jagti and interaction with those sitting on dharna.
As a mark of solidarity, he along with leaders of the National Conference Minority Cell, sat with the protesters, who are demanding increase of cash relief from Rs 13000 per month to Rs 35, 000 per family, disbursement of pending amount of compensation for their damaged properties and retrieval of their encroached lands and houses in the Valley.
The protesting migrants have also been demanding filling up of the remaining 3000 posts under the Prime Minister’s special employment package. They also demanded issuance of appointment orders in favour of 45 and 83 candidates under the PM’s Package, whose appointments were stayed and subsequently vacated by the Court. They also sought adequate accommodation for the migrant employees posted in Kashmir.
Rana assured the migrants that he would take up their demands with the Lieutenant Governor for earnest redressal.
Provincial vice president Anil Dhar besides president Minority Cell M K Yogi and Jatin Bhat also spoke to the protesting migrants.
Dhar and Yogi described the demands as genuine and said that these need to be fulfilled. They also hoped that the administration would reach out to those on dharna and resolve the issues to their satisfaction.
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