Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, May 4: Reiterating its demand for granting minority status to the Sikhs of Jammu & Kashmir, All Parties Sikh Coordination Committee (APSCC) said that assurances given by top leadership of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) before the Assembly elections should be fulfilled at the earliest.
APSCC Chairman Jagmohan Singh Raina while addressing community members in different areas of South Kashmir said that the community members have pinned their hopes on PDP-BJP Government for redressal of their grievances including granting of minority status. Raina said that it was only after that this assurance Sikhs across the State voted for PDP candidates in the last year’s Assembly elections.
“The manifesto of PDP endorsed that minority status should be given to the Sikh community by extending National Commission for Minorities Act to the Jammu & Kashmir State. We have already made it clear that nobody should dilute the extension of National Minority Act to Jammu & Kashmir,” said Raina.
Addressing a gathering at Saidapora in Pulwama district the APSCC Chairman stressed that Government must fulfill the promises made with the Sikhs without any further delay.
Raina expressed concern over the attack carried out by some miscreants on a Gurdwara in the Kishtwar area and demanded that stern action should be taken against the people who carried out the attack. He also expressed his resentment over the beating up of a female Sikh teacher by parent of a child at a leading missionary school in Srinagar.
The APSCC Chairman said that the organization would strengthen its mass contact programme and carry out visit to the various areas of the state. Prominent Sikh leaders who accompanied him during the South Kashmir tour included S Davinder Singh, S Kulwant Singh Sagar, Panch Zorawar Singh and others.
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