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‘Package for Kashmiri Hindus misleading’

Jammu: Terming the Prime Minister’s package for displaced Kashmiri Hindus as “misleading”, three frontal organisations of Kashmiri migrants on Wednesday said it trivialises the issue of religious cleansing and genocide of Kashmiri Hindus.

“By reducing the issue of genocide to merely constructing a shelter in the Kashmir Valley, that too in hostile environs, the UPA Government has displayed lack of vision in confronting the larger challenge of jehadi terrorism,” Panun Kashmir leaders Agnishekhar, Ajay Chrungoo and president of All-State Kashmiri Pandit Solidarity Conference O.N. Trisal told reporters here.

If having a house in Kashmir was the only problem for Kashmiri Hindus then none of them would have left the State in 1990.

Mr. Agnishekhar alleged that the way the package was declared in Akhnoor by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh caused bad feelings among Kashmiri Hindus rather than acting as a balm on their wounds.

“This package has created an ill-will and not a goodwill for Kashmiri Hindus,” he said.

Mr. Chrungoo said the UPA government by announcing this package has demonstrated its inaptitude and abject failure in comprehending the real challenges to the return of Kashmiri Hindus to the valley.

Mr. Trisal said the Centre should have addressed the issues of forcible and fraudulent grabbing of property belonging to Pandits and shrines, compensation and release of rental arrears of Hindu houses occupied by the security forces, waiver of loans and income tax for traders besides a comprehensive employment package. -- PTI

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