Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, June 23: Union Home Ministry senior officers today convened a meeting of Kashmiri Pandits to seek their opinion on Union Government’s policy of return and rehabilitation of displaced Pandits in Valley.
According to sources the leaders of various KP organizations and social activists of the community attended the meeting which was represented from official side by Joint Secretary Home and Director Kashmir Affairs.
The meeting is considered a prelude to formal meeting of KP representatives with Union Home Minister and Finance Minister. The meeting was organized to seek the community feed back on return issue before the formal meeting of the KP representatives with two Union Ministers.
Various problems confronting the community were discussed in the meeting which included the Shrines and Temples Bill, consolidated rehabilitation of the community, political empowerment of KPs, grant of minority status, declaration of distress sale as null and void, abrogation of Article 370 etc.
Meanwhile, some KP organizations have expressed their unhappiness that the Government was unnecessarily giving hype to the rehabilitation issue and demanded that instead of inviting a huge group in the meeting it should invite three to four prominent KP leaders and intellectuals of the community and discuss the issue thread bare with them.
These organizations are also of the opinion that the situation at present was not conducive for the return of the community and any hurry in this regard will invite trouble.
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