STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: A deputation of Panun Kashmir led by its President V.K Bhat and Convener Ravinder Jalali on Thursday called on Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and apprised her regarding their decision on opposing State Government’s proposal on KPs’ settlement in transit accommodation in Valley prior to their transportation to native places on the pretext that they are humans and not the non-living commodity.
Jalali made it clear to the Minister that the present arrangement of the government under the return and rehabilitation programme of KPs, which perhaps has the concurrence of Central Government of putting up the KPs in the pigeon hole transit camps in Valley is not acceptable to the community.
Bhat reiterated its demand before Minister for a separate Homeland as envisaged in the Margdarshan Resolution passed by Kashmiri Pandits in 1991 and appealed to the Minister to convey to the Prime Minister that no less than separate Homeland is acceptable to KPs. The recent developments in the Valley consequent upon the announcement of the transit accommodation, followed by a seminar arranged by the separatist and allowed by the government had made it clear that the majority community in the Valley do not believe in the co-existence and shows, how much intolerant they are towards Kashmiri Pandits, which vindicate our demand for a separate homeland and rejection of transit camps in the Valley.
