Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Aug 17: Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo, senior BJP & KP leader, who is on tour of Kashmir Valley at present held various meetings with the cross sections of society as well as migrant employees and other members of Hindu and Sikh minorities putting up in Valley.
During his visit he took up the problems faced by the migrant employees, minorities living in the Valley with concerned officers and specially stressed on vacation of migrant land as well as those of their religious places forcibly occupied by some unscrupulous elements.
He also visited the Nand Singh Memorial, Uri and Baramulla today and held meetings at Bandi Brahmna and Lagama in Tehsil Uri with the non-migrant inhabitants of the area and listened to their woes and demands.
The meetings were organised by the youth leader Akshay Kumar and Neter Prakash, District Baramulla BJP secretary. These were attended among others by Navinder Kumar Raina. Committee Orginaser, Shoni Lal, Sanjay Kumar, Retaish Kumar and Anoop Kumar.
Chrungoo on the occasion said that an intimate exercise in connection with the Delimitation process has been undertaken with an aim of reservation or nomination for the minorities of Kashmir Valley in the Assembly and Parliament. This exercise is focused to ensure representative character to the Kashmiri Pandits, Kashmiri Sikhs and the non-Kashmiri speaking Hindus of Kashmir.
He said, “during the last 32 years in particular, the community was compelled to remain politically unrepresented. It is a real test also for all political parties who day in and day out call ‘the Kashmiri Pandits as an integral part of Kashmir’ to support the community’s call for political representation through reservation or nomination. It will necessitate an amendment in the constitution or in the J&K Reorganisation Act of 2019.
It was also observed that complaints regarding encroachment of land and properties of the displaced people were not being addressed by the authorities and demanded that the Government should create a nodal agency in Kashmir to attend to these issues which exclusively need its attention and follow up.
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