Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 6: More than 80,000 Pahari people residing in proper Srinagar and some more boarder areas of Kashmir can play an important role in the Politics of J&K, and efforts toward peace process are futile exercise unless Pahari community is taken into confidence and their long pending demand of ST status is conceded without any further delay, said speakers during the Pahari Delegate Session held at Sunderbani, today.
Paharies can launch new Political Party if Pahari leader/Legislature failed to get the long pending and principally agreed demand fulfilled by NC Congress coalition before the election of 2014, they said adding otherwise the population of more 30 lakh Paharies can revolt against the coalition partner and they will show there resentment through their votes by nominating there candidate to defeat the coalition partner in the election who ever remained befooling the community with their false promises.
They alleged that even some of Pahari politicians have also misused the Pahari platform and have played with the carriage of more than two lakh Pahari educated unemployed youths.
Govt must realize the seriousness of issue and grant ST status without wasting more time because at all it is done at the done earliest it would be in the best interest of unity/ integrity / and security of the country otherwise the dejected and frustrated more than 2 lakh Pahari Student and more than 80 thousand unemployed Pahari youth can undoubtedly mis-led by the separatist forces as it has been during last 23 years, they said.
State President, Jammu and Kashmir Pahari People Movement, Abdul Qadir Khan, appealed Pahari youths of the State to be united in the struggle for getting ST status, as in spite of getting high percentage and being meritorious, they are suffering very bad in every field due to step motherly treatment with them. Khan said that we’re there is resistance there is existence and where there is life struggle is the sole means to achieve the goal in order to spearhead the JKPPM.
Prominent among those who spoke includes Shahbaz Khan, Amjad Ali, Sayeed Mughal, Javed Mughal, Ashwani Sharma and many others.
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