Srinagar, April 10, (Scoop News)-Addressing weekly the congregation at the Historic Jamia Masjid Srinagar, APHC leader, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Friday said,”on behalf of Kashmiri Muslims I make an ardent appeal to the Kashmiri Pandit Community to not look towards the government but to look towards Kashmiri Muslim community and wholly and solely trust fellow Kashmiri Muslim community to welcome them back to their homes, to their rightful places.”
Mirwaiz said the Kashmiri Pandit community should look at their fellow members who either stayed back or returned to the valley and seek their advise on the issue.
He said Kashmiri Pandits should understand that successive governments at the centre have exploited their suffering for furthering their own agendas ,as is clear from the security-centric and communal thinking approach of the RSS and BJP that is at play right now.
He said this approach will only prove detrimental to the interests of the Pandit community who will not be living in a vacuum once they come here. He said that instead of becoming tools in the hands of these forces ,Kashmiri Pandits should assert themselves and live with dignity and as equals with and among their fellow muslims who have always welcomed them with open arms.
APHC leader said that the identification of three areas for the proposed township for Kashmiri Pandits, in Khanpora Baramulla, in Hal Pulwama and Shopian and an area near Mattan, as was disclosed in the budget presented in the state assembly, was a matter of grave concern.
He said what has also been exposed is the proposal that article 370 will not be applicable to these areas, which means that people from other parts of India will also be settled in these townships . Mirwaiz said that this move is in keeping with the New Delhi’s agenda of settling outsiders to change the demographic composition of the state.
Mirwaiz further said that it is unfortunate that the shameful legacy of double speak of pro India parties in Jammu and Kashmir right from 1947,continues.
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