[Reader-list] 'Kashmiri Pandits should be the ones running Amarnath Board'

[Pawan Durani]

You need it.

On 7/5/08, Shivam Vij शिवम् विज् <mail at shivamvij.com> wrote:
>
> Laughter is the best medicine.
>
> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Aditya Raj Kaul
> <kauladityaraj at gmail.com> wrote:
> > LOL - ROFL
> >
> > Its just too funny.
> >
> > On 7/3/08, Shivam Vij शिवम् विज् <mail at shivamvij.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear all,
> >>
> >> This is my third day in Srinagar and following the Delhi media on the
> >> internet, it seems to me that not much has come out about the stand
> >> taken by Kashmiri Pandits and Sikhs who reside in the Valley. They
> >> were supporting the demand to revoke the land transfer order! A
> >> demonstration by Sikh leaders here was stopped by the police, but
> >> demonstrations by Pandits in Jammu and Delhi, who always complain of
> >> being ignored by the media, have been duly highlighted. This imbalance
> >> is also reflected on the Reader-List.
> >>
> >> If anyone's voice is being marginalised in the media discourse, it is
> >> that of communal harmony from the Valley, that of Sikhs and Pandits...
> >> here is one report I found in that direction. Will post more.
> >>
> >> best
> >> shivam
> >>
> >> o o o
> >>
> >> Keep politicians out of shrine board: PDP leader
> >>
> >> http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=136527
> >>
> >> Senior PDP leader, Dr Roop Lal Sharma has advised that Shri Amarnath
> >> Shrine Board affairs be handled by top journalists, lawyers, social
> >> activists from Kashmiri Pandit community. He stressed that politicians
> >> must be kept away from the Board..
> >>
> >> SENIOR PEOPLE'S Democratic Party (PDP) leader Dr Roop Lal Sharma has
> >> expressed serious concern over the developments in Jammu and Kashmir
> >> pertaining to the controversy on land transfer to Shri Amarnath Shrine
> >> Board (SASB) and has demanded handing over of the Board to Kashmiri
> >> Pandits for management.
> >>
> >> In a statement issued in Jammu, Dr Sharma has said that the
> >> controversy has given a bad name to the state adding, it does not
> >> augur well for the secular character of the state and the government
> >> should act fast to resolve the issue before it snowballs into a major
> >> communal flare-up.
> >>
> >> Dr Sharma has said that Amarnath shrine belongs to state, particularly
> >> Kashmiri Pandits, who are the original inhabitants of the state and
> >> the local population of the area, who had been managing the affairs of
> >> the shrine for the past many decades.
> >>
> >> He said that only Kashmiri Pandits have the right to manage the
> >> affairs of the shrine besides, the local population of Maliks of
> >> Batkote so that the 'yatra' (pilgrimage) is not communalised by some
> >> vested interests in the administration.
> >>
> >> Dr Sharma has also warned the communal elements within the Hindu and
> >> the Muslim societies to refrain from giving the 'yatra' a communal
> >> colour and has condemned the attack on tourists in Kashmir besides,
> >> killing of a Kashmiri youth in the police firing in Kashmir.
> >>
> >> Elaborating further, Dr Sharma said that the affairs of the shrine
> >> should be entrusted to select Kashmiri Pandits comprising known
> >> journalists, lawyers and known social activists adding, the political
> >> class should be kept at an arms length from the board.
> >>
> >> Dr Sharma also said that even Kashmiri Pandit leaders, who are
> >> affiliated to various groups should be consulted but not given the
> >> reins because that will further divide the community, thus harming the
> >> interests
> >>
> >> Hailing the futuristic vision of the PDP patron, Mufti Mohd Sayeed for
> >> suggesting the handing over of the shrine to Kashmiri Pandits, Dr
> >> Sharma said that the government must act fast on his suggestion
> >> considering the fact that Sayeed has always proven right in his
> >> assessment of the situations.
> >>
> >> Dr Sharma has also called for an end to violence and asked Muslim
> >> brethren not to fall prey to some over zealous communalists who were
> >> vitiating the secular character of Kashmiris, thereby damaging the
> >> reputation the world over.
> >>
> >> He said such incidents would take the situation back to 1990s, thus
> >> causing immense damage to the economy of the Kashmiris.
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