Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 7: Panun Kashmir (PK) led by its president, Vijay Bhat held a meeting here today to take the stock of situation, post Prime Minister Narendra Modi‘s visit to Jammu.
Addressing the meeting Vijay Bhat said that the pain and agony of Kashmiri Pandits expressed and shared by Prime Minister is a matter of satisfaction and is appreciable. Prime Minister had said that the Central Government will dedicatedly work for the rights, honour and dignity of Kashmiri Pandits and the era of violence and terrorism during which they had to flee their homes is a dark chapter in India’s history.
Convener, PK, Ravinder Jalali while, appreciating the concern and commitment shown by the Prime Minister for the return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits to Valley with rights, honour and dignity, appealed him to translate the feelings and expressions of pain and agony of Kashmiri Pandits into action by setting up of Commission of enquiry to look into the reasons of mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits and fix the responsibility for the perpetrators of heinous crime of ethnic cleaning and bring them to justice.
He said if 1984 riots can be opened now, why 1990 ethnic cleansing and genocide of Kashmiri Pandits can not be opened? said Jalali.
PK made it clear that the transit accommodation in Valley for KPs, as suggested by PM, is neither a solution nor it will reverse the genocide of Kashmiri Pandits. “We want to make it clear that Kashmiri Pandits were driven out of their homes and hearths in Valley on the basis of faith/religion to establish the Islamic rule (Nizami-Mustafa). It was further clarified that transit accommodation is not going to solve the problem and the only solution for the return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits in Valley with honour and dignity is the implementation of Margdarshan resolution of 1991 passed unanimously by entire Kashmiri Pandit community in exile during December 1991 that envisages a separate Homeland with Union Territory status to reverse their religious cleansing and genocide.
Vijay Bhat reiterated that no less than separate Homeland, as per Margdarshan resolution of 1991, is acceptable to KPs. Kashmiri Pandits have great hopes with the PM and if they can not return and rehabilitated under present dispensation, the community will be constrained to presume that the present Government under Narendra Modi is no different from erstwhile Governments who have milked the hapless community for their vested interests since exodus in 1990.
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