Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 8: Panun Kashmir (PK) held a meeting of the Political Affairs Committee to discuss the issue of Delimitation in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir.
The meeting was held under the chairmanship of the president, Panun Kashmir (PK), Virender Raina and among others was attended by Kamal Bagati general secretary (Org), Upinder Koul, general secretary, Sameer Bhat, convenor, PK youth, Ashok Chrungoo, P.K.Bhan and Kewal Krishen.
Virender Raina, while addressing the meeting said that the Delimitation Commission for the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir has convened it’s meeting and a delegation of PK would be meeting the members of the Commission to put forth it’s demands. Kashmiri Pandit community has suffered genocide and ethnic cleansing and as a result forced exodus from Kashmir. Even after exodus they continue to suffer political and administrative marginalization. Under these circumstances delimitation is one chance to protect the political constituency of the internally displaced Kashmiri Pandits.
Virender Raina said that Kashmiri Pandits are witness to the truncation of the Assembly constituencies as a result of which they stood little chance of getting elected to any Assembly segments in Kashmir. Pandit majority Assembly constituencies of Habba Kadal, Rainawari, Amira Kadal, Jawahar Nagar and in Anantnag were fragmented in an unjust manner to obviate any chance of winning for a KP candidate. This was done with a design to politically marginalise the community for all times to come. Now the Commission has the power and the opportunity to undo the injustice done to the community.
PK appealed to the Commission that five Assembly seats be reserved for the displaced Kashmiri Pandit community which has more than five thousand years of written history in the Kashmir Valley by incorporating amendment in the Constitution to this effect or in the alternative, five nominations be done from the community in the Assembly of the UT.
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