Amid the outrage over the killing of a Kashmiri Pandit authorities worker Rahul Bhat by militants in central Kashmir’s Budgam district on Thursday, which triggered large protests by the group in each the areas of Jammu and Kashmir, the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) is ready to fulfill Lt Governor Manoj Sinha to hunt safe postings for the minority group workers dwelling within the Valley. The PAGD took the choice to name on
Sinha after its leaders held a gathering with some representatives of Kashmiri Pandits Saturday.
“We have sought appointment from the LT Governor,” MY Tarigami, the CPI(M) chief and PAGD spokesperson, advised The Indian Express. “We will meet him and take up the issue of the security of the members of the minority community with him.”
Tarigami stated the Gupkar Alliance leaders held an “unscheduled meeting” on Saturday after a delegation of the Kashmiri Pandit group members expressed their want to fulfill them. “They said they want to meet us. So we decided to meet them together at Farooq (Abdullah) sahib’s residence. Mehbooba (Mufti) ji and Muzzaffar Shah sahib were also present in the meeting,” he stated.
The Farooq Abdullah-led National Conference (NC), the Mehbooba Mufti-headed People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and the Muzzaffar Shah-led Awami National Conference moreover Tarigami’s CPI(M) are the constituents of the PAGD, which was shaped by Kashmir’s mainstream events in 2020 to hunt restoration of J&K’s statehood and particular standing underneath Article 370 and Article 35A, which have been abrogated by the BJP-ruled Center in August 2019.
This was the PAGD’s first assembly in additional than two months. The Gupkar Alliance companions had final met on February 27 to debate the Delimitation Commission’s draft report.
While as an alliance the PAGD has not spelt out its place on the rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits, its constituents have been calling for his or her dignified and peaceable return to the Valley. The aid and rehabilitation of the group had been undertaken in a major method throughout their respective tenures by each the NC-led and the PDP-led J&Okay governments previously.
Referring to the Gupkar amalgam leaders’ assembly with the Kashmiri Pandit delegation, Tarigami stated they expressed their want to depart the Valley within the wake of Bhat’s killing. A clerk within the authorities’s income division posted on the Chadoora tehsil workplace, Bhat, in his 30s, was shot lifeless by militants inside his workplace. His killing led to large protests by the group that demanded safety for his or her members.
“They (delegation members) said they want to leave Kashmir,” Tarigami stated. “We assured them that this is their home, their land.”
The PAGD claimed that on their assurance the delegation members stated they’d proceed to remain within the Valley however sought postings at safe locations. “We told them that we will bring their concerns to the notice of the government,” he stated. “And that is why we have sought the appointment from the Lt Governor.”
Tarigami stated Bhat’s killing has shaken Kashmiri Pandits and has “deflated” the Centre’s claims of normalcy within the Valley. “The responsibility lies with the government,” he stated. “They (government) have created a narrative of normalcy in Kashmir but every now and then people are being killed.”
He stated the PAGD leaders have appealed to the folks of Kashmir to come back ahead and guarantee security of Kashmiri Pandits dwelling and dealing within the Valley. “We appeal to all shades of opinion, whether religious or social, and to the civil society and others to come forward, speak and work for the safety of the minority community members,” he stated, including “That is our tradition”.
In the previous too, the Gupkar Alliance had accused the Narendra Modi-led central authorities of allegedly making a “fake normalcy narrative” and searching for to “drive a wedge between different communities living in the Valley”.
“The Modi government has not only failed to improve the security situation in the Kashmir Valley but has created tension between communities,” the Alliance had stated in October 2021 after militants killed seven folks — together with a distinguished Kashmiri Pandit businessman ML Bindroo — in a string of assaults. “It has been shown without any doubt that neither demonetisation nor the removal of Article 370 have contributed to improving the security situation in J&K. In fact, some recent decisions of the Jammu & Kashmir administration have only served to heighten differences between the communities that otherwise were living peacefully amongst each other,” the PAGD had then added.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
