After National Conference working President and former chief minister Omar Abdullah urged the government to pass a resolution to bring back Kashmiri pundits, Sikhs and muslims who left Kashmir due to Turmoil, speaker Kavinder Gupta Thursday passed the resolution after the government’s nod.Parliamentary Affairs minister, Ab Rahman Veeri said, “We accept the need to bring our people back who left and thus a resolution is being passed here.”“They are our part, bringing them back is what keeps our conscience alive,” he said.Earlier, Omar Abdullah had urged the government to pass a resolution to bring back pandits and others who left Kashmir due to turmoil.While speaking in the Legislative Assembly Omar said, “We should all come together and pass a resolution so that Kashmiri pandits, sikhs and even muslims who left Kashmir due to the turmoil can be resettled and made to come back to their homes.”
“Today it has been 27 years since they left valley,” he said, “And we all should rise above politics and pass a resolution for their comeback.”Langate legislator, Engineer Rasheed termed it a “mere scoring of political points”.The first thing governments need to do is to talk with the genuine representatives of these people who have left Kashmir, Rasheed said while talking to reporters outside the Assembly.
Nothing happens by passing resolutions, had it been so National Conference would have passed the autonomy resolution, he said, “People don’t come home by resolutions.”He also said that the people who left Kashmir, left on their own and no one forced them to do so. “If the fear was militancy, it is still there in Kashmir.”We welcome Pandits and they should come and live in their homes, but the settlements won’t be acceptable, Rasheed said.“Government should also look to bring back the people who got dislocated during the partition and have settled in Pakistan,” he said. (CNS)