Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 28: On the occasion 23rd Homeland Day today displaced Kashmiri Pandits took a solemn pledge to take their 24 year long struggle to its logical conclusion in accordance with Margdarshan resolution passed by Panun Kashmir (PK) on this day in 1991.
Various programmes were organized by community on the occasion at different places in Jammu and NCR Delhi.
P K led by Dr Ajay Chrangoo organized a programme in connection with Homeland Day here at Roop Nagar in which a large number of PK activists and other community members participated.
The members took a solemn pledge to accelerate the struggle for carving out a separate homeland in Kashmir Valley with Union Territory status and free flow of Indian Constitution to reverse the religious cleansing and genocide of the community once for all.
The day long deliberations dwelt at length on the various issues being faced by the KP community and the challenges being posed to its survival and youth by forces hell bent to decimate the community.
The speakers analyzed the emerging socio-political situation and the vindication homeland demand when all conspiracies to put the community as hostage to the separatists and communal forces have failed due to the civilization affront given by the PK.
Taking stock of the emerging situation and the challenges being faced by the community, Dr Ajay Chrungoo, chairman PK said two years back the Government’s in State and at Centre started implementing the Prime Minister’s employment package for the internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus. The package has been the primary component of the Government policy on the return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri Hindus in Valley despite the fact that both the governments were knowing that the ground situation in Kashmir was far from being normal and in fact was becoming increasingly fragile and uncertain, he added.
Questioning linking of return with rehabilitation, Dr Chrungoo said the State and Central governments knew it very well that the attempts, not in the distant past, to repatriate the internally displaced Kashmiri Hindus had resulted into bloody massacres in Sangrampora, Wandhahama, Nadimarg etc.
He said the peace process pursued with Pakistan generated little hope as it was getting unstuck with each act of terror inside India or aggression along LoC and the IB.
He said the appointed returnees experienced that the Government has betrayed them and the claims of normalcy on ground were a lie.
He also warned the fifth columnists within the community and asked them not to play with the community interests.
Veteran Freedom fighter and member advisory PK Omkar Nath Trisal said that Homeland is not mere slogan but the triumph of life over death and represents the civilizational will and the affront of the community given to the separatists and communal forces. “The homeland was created on the day the KPs were thrown out of their ancestral homeland”, he added.
Piarey Lal Raina, senior PK leader, S K Handoo, senior social activist, Prof M L Koul renowned scholar and others also spoke on the occasion.
Another function was organized by Executive Council of PK led by Ashwani Chrungoo here to commemorate the Margdarshan resolution.
The function was presided over by Mr Chrungoo. Prof M L Raina, Chairman PAC, PK, Virender Riana its national spokesperson, J L Koul, Upinder Koul, Virender Koul, Vijay Qazi , Ramesh Koul and Ravinder Punjabi attended it.
Addressing the function Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo said that it was Margdarshan resolution that paved the way for the organized resistance to genocide and ethnic cleansing of the Kashmiri Pandits in Valley. Margdarshan advocated a separate homeland for seven Lakh Kashmiri Hindus on North East of river Jehlum in Valley with UT status and free flow of Indian Constitution, he added.
He said Margdarshan resolution for the first time in the history of KPs sought their tragedy in most comprehensive manner keeping in view the historical experiences of many past exoduses.
Virender Raina, national spokesperson, PK said that a separate homeland for seven lakh KPs also meets the strategic imperatives of the nation by strengthening the restive Northern frontiers. In the emerging political scenario, after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan and China making inroads in PoK, the situation for India could become hazardous, he added.
He said in this situation homeland on the North and East of river Jehlum would serve as a bulwark against both China and Pakistan.
All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference (ASKPC) which recently shifted its stand from Kashyap State to separate homeland within Valley also observed the Homeland day at a function here today.
The ASKPC members, its Women Wing and Youth Wing activists also attended the function and resolved to work shoulder to shoulder with other organizations in attainment of the goal.
On the occasion a two minutes silence was also observed as a mark of respect to those martyred at the hands of the Islamist zealots.
In his address H L Chatta president ASKPC said a historic resolution was passed on December 28, 1991 by the exiled community regarding the carving out of separate homeland within Valley for Pandits as majority community totally rejected the pluralistic and composite culture in Valley and forced the mass exodus of the community.
R K Raina senior vice president ASKPC while highlighting the importance of Margdarshan resolution said that the return formula was not acceptable to the community in the present form.
Shiban Ji Bhat , Subash Chatta, Veena Gurtoo, Bansi Lal Handoo, Ravi Raina, S L Mujoo, K L Dhar, A K Warikoo, S K Raina and others also spoke on the occasion.
The 23rd Homeland Day was also observed in NCR Delhi where the activists of PK reiterated their resolve to garner more public support and mobilize the opinion throughout the country for carving out separate homeland within Valley as envisaged in Margdarshan resolution.
The participants recalled horror of events starting from 1986 Anantnag riots, followed by threats, intimidation and gory killings of prominent members and Sangrampora, Wandhhama, Telvani and Nadimarg massacres which eventually forced the entire KP minority to live an exiled life outside Valley.
The PK activists said that community will be shortly observing the 25th year of its seventh forced exile on January 19, 2014.
Ramesh Manwati a senior PK leader on the occasion said that separate homeland is only potent and viable political alternative available to reverse the centuries old persecution and genocide of KPs.
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