Kashmiri Pandits to protest in Delhi
October 28th, 2011 - 6:21 pm ICT by IANS
Jammu, Oct 28 (IANS) Displaced Kashmiri Pandits in Jammu and Kashmir will be staging a rally in New Delhi in November to apprise Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of their deteriorating living conditions in camps and newly constructed satellite townships here, a spokesperson said Friday.
“To draw the prime minister’s attention towards our plight, we will be visiting Delhi and staging a rally there,” spokesperson P.L. Thussu said.
Thussu regretted that the facilities for Kashmiri Pandits living in Jagti township on the edges of Jammu city were “inadequate”.
But contesting Thussu’s claim, a spokesman of the revenue department asserted that newly constructed flats were allotted in Jagti, along with uninterrupted water and power supplies.
The Jagti township was constructed under the prime minister’s special package of relief and rehabilitation for migrant Kashmiri Pandits, 350,000 of whom had fled the Kashmir Valley in the 1990s, under the threat of militants.
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