Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 24: The activists of Youth All India Kashmiri Samaj (YAIKS) held a demonstration here at Dogra Chowk today in protest against inviting the main stream leaders to the meet by the PMO in New Delhi while ignoring over five lakh displaced Kashmiri Pandits– the main stakeholders.
The demonstration was led by YAIKS president, R K Bhat who is also GKPD North India coordinator. The protestors including men and women were with placards and banners in their hands raising slogans that Kashmir belongs to them and no solution to the problem was possible without taking the displaced Pandits on board.
They also accused the Government of ignoring the plight of displaced Pandits who are the worst sufferers of terrorism and were leading an exiled life for last 32 years outside the Valley.
Addressing the protestors R K Bhat said when Prime Minister, Narendra Modi is holding talks with Kashmir Centric political parties in New Delhi to reorganize the UT of JK, the Kashmiri Pandits under the aegis of YAIKS are in the streets seeking justice.
Bhat said KPs are the original inhabitants of Kashmir with 5000 years old history and they are one of its key stakeholders. “Our genocide and ethnic cleansing has yet to be addressed,. We have neither forfeited our right to reclaim our motherland nor shall we do that till eternity,! The decisions taken on the basis of discussions held in any meeting, initiated and called by GOI with the leaders of mainstream political parties of JK for the resolution of internal issues shall equally affect us too,” he added.
He said “As proud citizens of India and residents of Kashmir, we would also like to exercise our fundamental right to be part of any political initiative. As such we demand to invite the grass root level representatives of KPs as well to a meeting soon with Prime Minister and Home Minister of India”.
“In the reorganization of UT of JK, we demand to reserve two Parliament and four Assembly constituencies for Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir”. “Political reservation for our community and to safeguard our temples and shrines are the only medium to save future of next generation of Kashmiri Pandits and to reconnect them to their lost roots”, he said.
Others who addressed the gathering included Sanjay Ganjoo, Manoj Handoo B K Bhat, Ashwani Kak, Kamal Tak, Ajay Raina, Neeraj Koul, Sanjay Raina, Arvind Wali, Vinod Bhat etc.
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