Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 23: Displaced Kashmir Sikhs Conference (DKSC) has demanded minority status and reservation for assembly seats in Jammu and Kashmir.
Addressing a press conference, DKSC President Harmohinder Singh asserted that the Central Government has assured the Sikh community time and again that their genuine demands will be met shortly, but unfortunately the Central Government and those who are at the helm of the affairs had not time to heal the wounds of microscopic Sikhs in Jammu and Kashmir.
He appealed to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah to create conditions for implementation of jurisdiction of National Commission for Minorities over J&K before the forthcoming delimitation of constituencies and others rules to the implemented under reorganization of J&K.
“Keeping in view the unique topography of the Jammu and Kashmir and different political ideologies of the people of two regions of the Union Territory and religious minorities, the reservation of constituencies is imperative for Sikhs in 4 Assembly segments viz Gandhi Nagar and RS Pura in Jammu Division and Baramulla and Tral in Kashmir Division on the same pattern and analogy of schedule caste category for whom 7 seats are already reserved in Jammu and Kashmir”, he asserted.
Singh exhorted the people in general and Sikhs in particular to come under one banner to achieve the goal for implementation of National Commission for Minorities and four constituencies reserved otherwise.
Singh hoped that the Central Government and new dispensation in the Union Territory will grant many sops to ethnic groups, deprived minorities and displaced people of PoJK who persistently spearheaded the struggle.
Among others present were Mangat Singh Sadwani, Jaswant Singh Hotamara, TP Singh, Angad Singh, Karan Nagri and Abhijeet Singh.
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