Jammu, April 10 (Scoop News) – Jammu Province People’s Forum (JPPF), a conglomerate of Jammu based political groups, socio-cultural and trade organizations, had warned the government against any dilution or revocation of the order about issuing Dogra certificate to the people of Jammu region irrespective of their caste, religion, language and sub region.
A meeting of the Jammu Province People’s Forum held in Jammu today under the chairmanship of Thakur pavitter Singh condemned the virulent campaign launched by the separatists and arch communalists in Kashmir against the Government decision to confer Dogra certificate on all those people from Jammu region who are desirous to acquire the same, to facilitate them in getting recruitment in the Indian army and Para Military forces, with concession in physical verification.
Addressing the meeting the senior leader Inderjeet Khajuria remarked that the Kashmiri politicians, who want to continue their hegemony over the people of Jammu and Ladakh do not tolerate the Dogra identity to assert itself and the people of Jammu as a whole, irrespective of their religion and language get a common identity.
He said the forum particularly condemned the moves by the separatists as well as some so called main stream politicians to give the issue a communal coloring, trying to create scare and fear psychosis among some Muslims ethnic groups that this step will erode their distinct ethnic identity. Further as in the case of Amar Nath Yatra land row these communalists are raising the bogey of and making the wolf cry of conspiracy to change the Muslim majority demographic character of the State, or creating Dogra Pradesh etc. this diabolic conspiracy on the part of the communal and anti- national elements in Kashmir needs to be exposed and fought against unitedly by the people of Jammu region as a whole.
Another senior leader of the forum Th. Narayan Singh expressed the full hope that the Muslims of Jammu who are secular and nationalist to the core will not fall prey to the machinations of communal minded separatists and as was the case during the Amar Nath land agitation, they will stand by their Hindu brethren and members of all the religious communities in Jammu region will fight as one man against the onslaught of communal and anti-national elements in Kashmir against their genuine rights. The benefit of Dogra certificate will also be available to the Muslims, Sikhs and Christians in Jammu region and any effort by some enemies of peace to rouse communal passions on this score will be foiled unitedly by all the nationalists, he added.
Th. Pavitter Singh announced that soon a larger meeting of representatives of all the Jammu based political groups, socio-cultural organizations and trade bodies will be convened, to chalk out the program to resist the pressure brought to be built by some Kashmiri politicians against the Government move to acknowledge Dogra identity, which is a synonym to Jammu regional identity.
Forum had further warned the Government that any surrender before the pressure of the communal and anti- national elements in Kashmir on the issue of recognizing Dogra identity will have a strong back lash and opposition in the length and breadth of Jammu region.
They said, that it will lead to a strong agitation in the whole of region on the pattern of the agitation fought by Jammu people in the year 2008, when the Government had surrendered before the communal, religious fundamentalists and anti- national elements in Kashmir, by cancelling the allotment of land to SASB, for creating infrastructural facilities for the pilgrims coming to Kashmir from all over the country to perform Amar Nath yatra.