Resolution adopted in the seminar: “New situations, new Hopes, New Challenges” Organised by Panun Kashmir on 27th May 2014 at Jammu Club, Jammu
CREATE A HOMELAND FOR A MILLION UPROOTED KASHMIRI HINDUS
Kashmiri Hindus hail the historic mandate given to Shri Narendra Modi and BJP in the recently concluded parliamentary elections. This moment is a watershed in the contemporary history of India. The message inherent in the mandate eloquently conveys that the Indian nation will not countenance anything that impinges upon the unity and integrity of India. It is a rebuff to the forces which sort to undermine the Idea of India as a civilization, and play a divisive politics of denial and subterfuge. The mandate signals that the majority community in the country has rejected the narrow politics based on caste language region and religion. It marks the beginning of the era of the demise of such processes which sort to utilize the space within the state and political system, to wage a war against the unity of India and its civilizational ethos.
1. The emergence of a pan-Indian leadership symbol is a defining moment in India’s history. This mandate also challenges the misdoings of that section of political leadership which has been culturally alienated from the sole of India and has always undermined our nationhood by describing India as a ‘conceptual myth’ or an ‘imagined community’. The use of minority communalism by this leadership as a vehicle for ascendency to power was a manifestation of this pathological thinking.
2. The arrival of a forward looking leader who is focused on development and nationalism, is bound to act as a force multiplier in India’s quest as an emerging power in the global context.
3. Kashmiri Hindus look to Shri Narendra Modi with great hope and optimism. It is our strong belief based on ground realities that the separatist campaign in Kashmir is not an issue of local alienation or a legacy of partition. The separatist campaign is part of a war been waged to dismantle India’s northern frontiers and pave a way for the balkanization of the country
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4. Religious cleansing of Kashmiri Hindus is a consequence of this campaign. The successive governments at the centre, which mollycoddled the terrorist/separatist structures in Kashmir, also trivialized the issue of ethnic cleansing of Hindus of Kashmir. Brazen attempts at denial of genocide of Hindus in Kashmir by successive governments, as also reducing the issue of resettlement to a tokenist/symbolic return of a few hundred people, only attempts to make a spurious claim that the secularism is restored in Kashmir.
6. These previous regimes also took to subterfuge to hoodwink the national opinion and to ensure stifling of national sensitivity on the issue of resettlement of the displaced Hindus. At the same time these governments also tried to cover up the regressive character of separatist campaign in Kashmir which has manifested itself in Wahabaization and the cleansing of the Hindus of Kashmir.
7. The forces inimical to the unity and integrity of India are the same, which under a design project the displacement of Kashmiri Hindus as akin to natural calamities and national disasters like earthquakes, floods, cyclones etc. It is imperative to understand that this act of ethnic cleansing of Hindus is primarily a political act and merits a political solution. It needs to be addressed in the framework of reversal of genocide and ethnic cleansing and a reassurance against any future refoulment.
8. The Kashmiri Hindus expect these issues to be handled with extreme sensitivity in keeping with the demands of nation building and security and safety of the Himalayan frontiers. We would also like to urge the new dispensation lead by Sh. Narendra Modi not to be misled by any jargons of“Kashmiriyat” – which is a misnomer and a construct meant to hoodwink the truth about Kashmir.
9. Panun Kashmir also would urge the Government lead by Sh. Narendra Modi to fulfill its commitment to the creation of the Union Territory of Ladakh. The structural reorganization of Jammu & Kashmir in the larger frame-work of the “re-organization of the states” is a political necessity that would address the aspirations of the people of Jammu and also mandate the creation of a Homeland for half a million uprooted Hindus of Kashmir in Kashmir valley.
5. Prof. M.K. Teng
6. Dr. Agnishekhar
7. Dr. Ajay Chrungoo
8. Sushil Pandit
Source: PANUN KASHMIR