Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Dec 29: Maintaining that there is no alternative to separate homeland for over seven lakh internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus in the Valley, Panun Kashmir (PK) today said that it will continue the struggle till the goal is achieved.
On the occasion of Margdarshan Day envisaging carving out of separate homeland for exiled Pandits in the Valley, PK chief coordinator NCR , Delhi Chandji Pandita organized a meeting in Union Capital. The activists and PK leaders who attended the meeting pledged to continue their just and peaceful struggle, in more rigorous manner, that includes among other things, holding meetings with prominent leaders, intellectuals, opinion makers in the country. The meeting adopted a resolution reiterating their commitment to ‘Margdarshan Resolution’ of December 1991.
They demanded that Government of India recognizes that Hindus of Kashmir have suffered genocide. That a permanent return of Hindus is only possible when Government of India addresses ‘return’ as an issue of ‘reversal of genocide’ and not as any tokenistic measure, which only seeks a cosmetic redressal of the grave problem.
Resolution demanded that Government of India should drop the tag of “migrants” and instead recognize the expelled Hindus of Kashmir as ‘internally displaced persons’ as per UN declarations. They further said that GoI should establish forthwith extra-ordinary Constitutional measures and create effective legal instruments to bring the perpetrators and the collaborators of the genocide of Hindus of Kashmir to justice. Further it should initiate measures for complete reorganisation of J&K State, thereby addressing the long pending and legitimate urges and aspirations of people of Jammu and Ladakh and simultaneously creation of a separate Union Territory in the North and East of River Vitasta in Kashmir Valley with free flow of Indian Constitution, for the sustained and permanent rehabilitation of Kashmiri Hindus – as envisioned in ‘Margdarshan’ resolution adopted by the exiled Kashmiri Pandit community at a two-day convention in Jammu on 28th December 1991.
The meeting was addressed by senior PK leaders Dr Shakti Bhan and Ramesh Manwati who said tat Pandits in Kashmir were subjected to atrocities for last 700 years which took critical shape in 1989-90 resulting into the ethnic cleansing of the community.
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