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VIJAYPUR: Former Minister and JKPCC General Secretary Manjit Singh on Wednesday appealed to government to issue notification of compensation maintaining all details whether they are intending to increase compensation amount to Rs 30 lakhs for Displaced Persons (DPs).
In a statement, former minister Manjit Singh said even as one year back the decision was taken regarding compensation and notification was issued. “The government should issue notification maintaining clearly that Rs 30 lakh is final compensation to the DPs or only Rs 5.5 lakh is the full and final payment,” he added.
He said that the intention of the government has been exposed as they forced people to file affidavit assuring that DPs will not claim further compensation except Rs 5.5 lakh. He demanded that the compensation to the DPs should be given as per the recommendations of Joint Parliamentary Committee.
Meanwhile, Manjit Singh supported the WPRs for the rights to citizenship in Jammu and Kashmir where they are living since last six decades. “The BJP-PDP Coalition Government has surrendered before the separatists and Pakistani supporters on the issue of granting citizenship right to the WPRs,” said Manjit Singh, while quoting the Agenda of Alliance in which they have supported the refugees for their genuine rights.
The coalition has back stabbed the refugees by not implementing what they were assured during election campaigns. “These refugees were used in Parliamentary elections by the Modi Government as voters and then, were abandoned by them. Saffron parties never support the refugees factually which has been exposed,” he alleged.
Manjit Singh said that the government should accept the long pending demands of the refugees and also provide them adequate compensation. “The Refugees are poor people who migrated during communal clashes in Sialkot in Pakistan in 1947. These people were rendered homeless and forced to leave their houses. Now, it is the responsibility of the State as well as Central Government to give them citizenship rights in J&K like other parts of the country which have already given the same to them,” he added.
He suggested that it should not be made a communal issue that it would change any demography. “They are already living in Jammu and Kashmir like other citizenship since 1947 but they are not given citizenship right.
“The government should consider them a humanitarian issue and grant them State Subjects. Their three generations have grown up here but yet they have no right or property right they are holding since last six decades,” said Manjit Singh.
He appealed to all the political parties to work unitedly for the rights of refugees who have lived through the trauma of being refugees.
