‘Community cannot return to get uprooted again’
Srinagar: Castigating Kashmir’s separatist camp over opposing separate land given to Kashmiri Pandits , the amalgam of the Pandits Monday stated that the community cannot return to a future of insecurity and uncertainty, only to be uprooted again
According to the reports received by KNS, Rattan Lal Bhat, a senior leader of the Jammu and Kashmir Vichar Manch (JKVM) stated, “Minority Hindus got exiled because the security of life was taken away. That situation can arise any time in the Valley. Kashmiri Pandits cannot return to a future of insecurity and uncertainty, only to be uprooted again.”
He maintained that the opposition to rehabilitation of Pandits at one location by separatists is ‘unfortunate’ and that they want Kashmiri Pandits to return to divided habitations so that the minority Hindus would be at the mercy of Hurriyat and militant leaders.
Welcoming the initiatives taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the rehabilitation policy of the Pandits , Bhat stated that the security is the major concern for the Pandits and
“Any attempt to alter the constitutional position of the state would change the ground situation. Likewise, any plans to scatter the returnees, by splitting the single-place rehabilitation demand, would proportionately reduce the sense of security among them,” he said. Interestingly, Panun Kashmir is demanding to carve out of a homeland in Kashmir within the Indian constitution and with Union Territory status