Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 29: A delegation of Shiromani Akali Dal National met the visiting Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh and demanded one time settlement of the claims of displaced persons of 1947 from PoK besides other issues of the Sikh minority community.
Led by Gurdev Singh, working president of SADN along with Dayal Singh Wazir and Prof Amrik Singh the delegation convincingly apprised Dr Manmohan Singh over the criminal silence of the Coalition Government regarding the deteriorating plight of the displaced persons of 1947 from PoK who are clamouring for justice and rehabilitation for the last more than six decades. They reminded that despite several meetings and representation to him , Union Home Minister and Chief Minister, the issue of refugees/ DPs has remained unresolved.
They pointed out that the DPs have not been given the due compensation/ claims for their properties left behind, nor they were given any assistance or relief proportionate to their physical and material loss. Their claims have not been registered so far on the plea that if done so the Union Government will lose its claim on PoK. They said that DPs are being treated as second class citizens of India.
The SADN members pointed out that over 12 lakh people who made tremendous sacrifices are the real stake holders who are awaiting rehabilitation whereas Kashmiri migrants are being doled out every day with fresh monitory/ employment package, and all sorts of concessions. They condemned the State Government and revenue authorities for creating confusion and misleading the Central Govt for resolving this human issue for their vested political interests.
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