Excelsior Correspondent
-Excelsior/ Rakesh
JAMMU, July 13: Panun Kashmir, an organisation of displaced Kashmiri Pandits, today urged the Centre to “revise” its policy structure for Jammu and Kashmir to put an end to “growing influence” of “religious extremism” in the Valley.
“Panun Kashmir urges the Government of India to recast its entire policy structure for Jammu and Kashmir in case it is really serious about putting an end and reversing the process of fundamentalism of the social milieu in Kashmir and parts of Jammu,” its convener Dr Agnishekhar and chairman Dr Ajay Chrungoo told reporters here, today.
They alleged that the active denial by the successive Governments in the State and the Centre about the genocide of the Kashmiri Hindus has been the most decisive encouragement for the spread of “Pan Islamic fundamentalism” in the State.
“If the Governments meant to protect and uphold the fundamental rights of its people it must identify the agents of destruction,” they said.
They also accused the Government of failing to show seriousness in controlling the growing influence of religious fundamentalism in the State.
“The challenge posed by the Pan Islamic Jihad which has ravaged the entire State and is fast spreading into the rest of the country cannot be curbed without showing seriousness,” they said.
Agnishekhar said that it was high time that the Centre should face the stark reality that the Islamic fundamentalism in the State was not happening through some medieval looking Madrassas but through an elaborate modern infrastructure of schools, colleges and universities equipped with laboratories and libraries.
The Centre must realize the danger the religious fundamentalism posses to the sovereignty and security of the country and must take measures to “curb” it before it starts spreading its tentacle, he added.
“Why should it be so that institutions supposed to inculcate modern education end up churning fundamentalism, is the cardinal question which Government of India should try to answer”, asked Dr Ajay Chrungoo.
Dr Chrungoo said while the militarized fundamentalist regimes were declaring their presence by hoisting and flaunting their flags the leadership at the helms has been indulging in trivializing these happenings by describing them as propaganda stunts.
He said the G o I has to realize fast that secularism does not grow by political empowerment of communalism, fundamentalism does not vanish by befriending it, and separatism doesn’t die by nourishing soft-separatism.
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