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| | Don’t dodge KP Migrants | | | Dear Editor,
For the last twenty four years the microscopic community of KP’s is being dodged from all angles. The community is, courtesy the weak and Ostrich-like policy of the Centre, inching towards its fatal extinction. Time is not far off when a KP will disappear, unsung, unwept and unheard! The dramatic pledges and diabolical pampering by the Government has proved only evasive, measures afoot to gauge his dying existence.
Centre has made him rootless, leaching him linguistically, socially, ethically and economically. Keeping young and talented in hibernation, it has weaned him away from his originality reducing him as an easy object of exploitation. To top it all, PM’s rehabilitation plan has been misused. One would like to know who the conspirators behind his forced migration were. Whereas the Centre is pursuing to locate and nab the invaders of the Bombay blast and Parliament attack, at the same time why it has feigned dead in the case of KP’s. There is not a wisp of wind about that.
Soon after their forced migration, most of their houses were set ablaze, reducing them to smoking cinders along with all their belongings and who is responsible for this lapse? Why has a KP been declared ‘Migrant’ in his own State and not as an ‘Internally Displaced Person’? Why continuing distress sale? It was under the distressed circumstances that the KP had to sell his belongings and not voluntarily. Why the houses of KP’s were not taken over by the Evacuee and Custodian Department as had been done at the time of migration of the majority section to Pak in 1947.
It is the then Govt., responsible for KP’s plight, throwing them away listlessly on cross roads, damaging their inherited values.
A KP wants settlement at the very place from where he sprang (most of us want a separate Homeland carved out of the Valley). Before concluding, I urge an answer from the Govt. on their palpable negligence on this issue.
—P.N. Sus,
Surya Vihar, Bohri, Jammu |
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