Since the homicide of Rahul Bhat in his workplace over a month in the past, over 5,400 Pandit workers have stopped visiting their workplaces within the Valley
Since the homicide of Rahul Bhat in his workplace over a month in the past, over 5,400 Pandit workers have stopped visiting their workplaces within the Valley
Kashmiri Pandit workers, recruited below the Prime Minister’s particular package deal, on Monday requested the J&Okay Lieutenant Governor’s (L-G) administration “to assure in writing that no Pandit will be killed in the future so that they could resume their duties”.
Thirty two days have handed, with no Pandit attending his or her workplace within the Valley after the spree of killings of minority members in May.
“Until the L-G’s government will not give in writing that no minority member will be killed, we will not resume offices. Kashmir is very unsafe and the brute forces are out to kill us for news. For them, we are just numbers. We don’t want to become news. We want our family and children to be secure,” Ajay, a Kashmiri Pandit worker and a member of the All Minority Employees’ Association Kashmir (AMEAK), mentioned.
Scores of Kashmiri Pandits held an illustration in Budgam’s Sheikhpora transit migrant colony. Over a month in the past, an worker from the colony, Rahul Bhat, posted on the tehsil workplace in Beerwah, was shot useless by militants in his workplace. Since then, over 5,400 Pandit workers, who had returned below the PM’s particular package deal to the Valley, have stopped visiting their workplaces within the Valley. Hundreds of workers have left for safer places in Hindu-majority Jammu.
“M.L. Bindroo was shot dead in his shop, just metres away from a police station. Bhat too was killed in a secure office. Such killings have stopped because Pandits have either left the Valley or stopped visiting their offices. ”Ajay Kashmiri Pandit, member of All Minority Employees’ Association Kashmir (AMEAK)
Say govt. “unmoved by plight”
“M.L. Bindroo was shot dead in his shop, just metres away from a police station. Bhat too was killed in a secure office. Such killings have stopped because Pandits have either left the Valley or stopped visiting their offices. The situation is not conducive. We should be relocated till the administration controls the situation on ground,” Mr. Ajay mentioned.
The Pandit workers, who’ve been recruited up to now 12 years in a bid to encourage migrant Pandit households to return to the Valley, termed the federal government transfer to put up the workers in district headquarters, as “inadequate”.
“Posting in district headquarters will not help. Even if I am posted three kilometres away from the camp, I cannot move around as a normal person. We are human beings. Life is not about going to the office and returning home,” Mr. Ajay added.
Sanjay, a Pandit worker from the Veesu migrant colony in south Kashmir, mentioned the federal government appears to be “unmoved by our plight”.
“The L-G did hold a dialogue with us. But all the issues cannot be addressed in one sitting. We are not for any deadlock. We demand that we should be attached to the Relief Commissioner’s office, which is our parent organisation, till the situation improves,” Mr. Sanjay mentioned.
Scores of Pandits additionally held demonstrations in Jammu and demanded that Pakistan ought to be declared as a terrorist state on the World Refugee Day.
“We have been left as refugees in our country. Till Pakistan will not be declared as a terrorist country, terrorism will not stop,” the protesters mentioned.
Source: www.thehindu.com
