STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: KP community and its representative organization Kashmiri Pandit Conference (KPC) welcomed the decision of the government to reserve two seats in the assembly to politically empower the KP Community, however seeking clarification from the present ruling dispensation whether these two reserved seats in JK Assembly to be filled from politically affiliated KP activists or from the common Community activists?
Kundan Kashmiri, President KPC, said there is a common term or proverb that “something is better than nothing” as after long sleep and slumber present dispensation at the center has awakened and felt a need to please ignored and isolated Kashmiri Pandits after tenth years of its rule,may be because of coming elections in UT and of Parliament in 2024 or their guilty conscious has jarked them to take this step for the badly suffered community in exile from the last 34 years.
From the last ten years whole community in general and KP organizations, in particular KPC have been urging this Government to listen them fulfill their demands and mitigate their problems, but no heed was given so for, even hounerable Prime Minister ignored us from the right of audience ( meeting with him ) so as to share our pain and grief we suffered from the last 34 years as well as wounds inflicted up on us by acts of ethnic cleansing, genocide, loot, arson, killings and massacres at hands of Kashmiri separatists, anti–national elements, looters and our tormentors in the valley.
Though, we welcome the decision of the government to reserve these two seats in the assembly to politically empower the victim KP Community,but long pending basic community demand was to grant four ( 4) constituencies in exile and one Rajaysabha seat for Kashmiri Pandit community to empower them properly and to restore the political legacy of KP community.
Whole community was hopeful that Government would introduce and pass our rehabilitation & resettlement bill as well as genocide bill in this session of parliament, but unfortunately not done. KPs community & KPC in particular reiterated that these two seats should be filled/ nominated from the common community activists, rather than politically affiliated activists of ruling dispensation and others.
