Sunday, April 12, 2015

I think the proposal to make arrangements for the Kashmiri Pandits to go back and settle in Kashmir is the right one.  It is a shame that when the Kashmiri Pandits were let go by the previous administration due to the pressure from the Muslims including the separatist leaders.  The then administration was found to be so vulnerable of this pressure that they changed the names of many streets of Kashmir and also could not save the Hindu temples from ruins.  Anyhow, they paid the price of their failure during the past election.  Now the question is not if the Kashmiri Muslims will allow the Kashmiri Pandits to come back, rather the question ought to be what the local and central government can do to expedite their returns to the land they lived on for so long.  The present Mufti government should take a cue from the previous administration's failed policies and try to work with the center to bring the Kashmiri Pandits back and if that means establishing a separate colony for them, so be it.  This is not the time to play politics, rather be a visionary.  The demand of the time is to work as a group and assist our fellow Pandits to grant their legitimate rights to settle in Kashmir.The idea is to galvanize Kashmir instead of polarizing it.  Also, the Mufti government ought to allow the non-Kashmiri businesses to establish their basis which will create lot of jobs - more jobs means more prosperity and higher revenues for the state exchequer, and also less time for the local Muslims youth to get involved into unproductive anti-national demonstrations.  The ball is in the court of local Mufti government to steer this situation in the right direction failing which they will meet the same fate in the next election what their predecessor felt.

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