Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 18: Apni Party (AP) general secretary and former MLC, Vijay Bakaya today showed his grave concern over the successive Governments’ failure at State and Centre in addressing the long standing issue of honourable and dignified rehabilitation of displaced Pandits from Valley who have entered 36th year of exile.
In a statement issued here, today Bakaya said “We remember the day 36 years ago, when a storm of hatred and violence hit the KP community and uprooted them from their homes in Kashmir despite being the original inhabitants of the Valley’’.
He said “Women, children, old men , writers, intellectuals, poets and Government employees were mercilessly killed for belonging to the Hindu faith’’.
He said today it is the 36 the Holocaust Day and in the last 36 years the KP community has lived in exile in Jammu and elsewhere in the country. They have lived in tents, tenements, hired accommodation as refugees in their own land, he added.
But their heads have never bowed, they have endured the misery of displacement and have not allowed their spirit to be broken, he said.
However their nostalgia for the paradise in which they lived, continues to pain them, he added.
He said except false assurances Government did nothing to mitigate their sufferings. Those living on relief alone have been pining for its increase, but all pleas have fallen on deaf ears.
Bakaya urged the Government to take concrete steps in consultation with their representatives to rehabilitate them in the Valley as per their wishes.
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