Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 22: Provincial president of JKNC, Rattan Lal Gupta has strongly criticized the Modi Government for its failure to fulfill the promises made to Kashmiri Pandit migrants during the previous polls regarding their rehabilitation package of jobs for unemployed youths and increase in monthly cash.
Addressing a meeting of Kashmiri migrants at party office Jammu today, Rattan Lal Gupta accused the BJP Govt at the Centre of exploiting the Kashmiri migrants’ suffering for political gains without genuinely addressing their grievances or ensuring their rightful return and resettlement in their homeland.
He emphasized that the Kashmiri migrants issue is not merely a matter of statistics or political rhetoric but a humanitarian crisis that demands urgent attention and meaningful solutions. He accused the BJP of exploiting the Kashmiri migrants’ suffering for political gains without genuinely addressing their grievances or ensuring their rightful return and resettlement in their homeland.
Earlier, at the outset of meeting called for the Parliamentary elections of Mian Altaf Ahmed candidate Anantnag- Rajouri Parliamentary seat, Bushan Lal Bhat, Chairman of J&K NC Minority Cell and ex-MLC, apprised the senior functionaries of Party about the hardships being faced by the Kashmiri migrant community residing in Jagti, Purkhoo, Muthi, Buta Nagar, Nagrota, Purkhoo Camps, and non-camps migrants settled in Jammu, Kathua and Udhampur districts. They said that no cash relief was enhanced for the last so many years and the migrant Kashmiri youth feeling alienated under the present dispensation.
Expressing concern over the plights of Kashmiri migrants, Gupta asserted that the BJP, despite getting huge mandate from migrant community during 2014 and 2019 polls, has miserably failed to stand on their expectations. He termed it unfortunate that despite increased cost of living amid sky rocketing prices and peak inflation the cash assistance being paid to the Kashmiri migrants has not been enhanced for the past so many years.
He criticized the BJP’s divisive rhetoric and anti- people policies, which, he argued, have only exacerbated tensions and alienated communities in the region. He called for a more inclusive and compassionate approach to resolving the Kashmiri migrants’ plight, one that prioritizes human dignity, justice, and reconciliation if the Indi Alliance voted in power.
Gupta appealed to the migrant community to support NC candidate Mian Altaf Ahmed from Anantnag–Rajouri Parliamentary constituency on May 25. Senior leaders Sheikh Bashir Ahmed, Pardeep Bali and Ayub Malik also spoke on the occasion.
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