Jammu, July 29: The Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (POJKLF) today expressed great resentment against the NDA Govt in Centre for allotting just one seat of JK Legislative Assembly for the POJK DPs in the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023.
Pritam Lal Sharma, Convenor – PoJKLF Jammu, in a statement issued acrimoniously termed the recent development as betrayal with the displaced community who have been outrightly supporting the BJP Government from Panchayat to Parliament level.
He said that POJK DPs have high hopes from Prime Minister Narendra Modi led NDA government but later seems least concerned to address their grievances and fulfil their demands.
Pertinently, The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday, July 26, 2023 seeking reservation of two seats for Kashmiri migrants and one seat for displaced people from Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK) in the JK UT Legislative Assembly.
“A Parliamentary Standing Committee in its report on the hardships being faced by the POJK refugees had recommended Rs. 30 lacs as rehabilitation package to each displaced family, but in a glaring example of blatant injustice with the POJK DPs only Rs 5.5 lacs were distributed to the beneficiaries.
The Parliamentary Committee had also recommended de-freezing (8 out of 24 reserved seats of J&K Legislative Assembly) proportionally to the POJK DPs as a large population of the PoJK migrated to India and settled in Jammu and Kashmir in 1947. Now, the NDA government by tabling ‘The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023’ has tried to sabotage the cause of political representation of POJK DPs, which is highly contemptible,” rued The Convenor – PoJKLF.
Sharma said that the PoJK DPs are being treated as sons of lesser god under the BJP regime which is nothing less than the previous governments. “The prejudice with POJK DPs was on public display when the BJP government denied them of their natural right of being the member of Pahari clan as the government restricted the benefits of ST status only to the Rajouri & Poonch districts.
A large number of Pahari speaking and displaced community population are settled outside Rajouri-Poonch for circumstantial reasons but despite being the descendants of the same culture, language and all other customs of Pahari ethics they are denied the benefits of ST Status, he lamented.
He further said that there was a huge resentment among the POJK Displaced Community for being treated step motherly especially under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi led NDA government who claims to be championing the cause of POJK DPs at public platforms.
The Convenor POJKLF urged the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah for revisiting ‘The Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2023’ and incorporate necessary amendments in the Bill to ensure due representation for the POJK Displaced Community besides safeguarding the natural right of POJK DPs by extending the benefits of ST (Pahari) status to them.
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