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JAMMU: Various political and social leaders of Kashmiri Pandit community expressed great surprise and shock over repeated orders being issued by the Relief Commissioner Migrants J&K Jammu one after the other thus putting the whole community living in exile for last more than 32 years on deliberate procedural cumbersome.
In statement issued today jointly by many Kashmiri leaders, they said that they are not against streamlining the whole affairs in the Relief Organization if the Government would have issued one go order for streamlining the whole affairs rather issuing these frequent continuous orders to put un necessary pressure and metal agony on the whole community.
They exhorted that authorities need to put in place a simple and user friendly mechanism to determine whether all the benefit holders in the migrant quota are genuine like self attestation which would be accepted to all.
They also said that it is due to tedious and lengthy M form system introduced by the Governments decades back that Kashmiri Pandits living in exile are unable to exercise their franchise in exile thus got debarred from voting system which too need to be removed forthwith.
The leaders asked Relief commissioner not to conduct experiments on the Kashmiri Pandit community and desist from issuing such unwarranted repeated circulars to harass the community and with draw the recent order RRCM/Acctts/1748-54 dated January 1, 2022 forthwith which is quite unjustified.
The prominent KP leaders who have expressed anguish and resentment on the issue were M.K. Yogi, Prof. A.N Sadhu, Vinod Pandita, Anil Bhan, T.K Koul, Ashok Dhar, Comrade Mohan Lal, Tej Krishan Dhar, Anu ji President of Kashmir Pandit United Coordination Committee J&K UT.