Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti today expressed her wish for the return of displaced Kashmiri Pandits to Kashmir with "honour and dignity". She expressed her views while addressing a meeting with displaced members of the Kashmiri Pandit community here. "The Kashmiri Pandit community has immensely contributed in the past in emancipation of Kashmir society and it is time for their return to their homes with honour and dignity," she said.
On the recent devastating floods in Jammu and Kashmir, she said that, "Kashmir has once again faced a devastation of vast scale, though this time it is result of the nature's wrath but it compounds the problem left behind by the horrible events of 1990s which had forced large number of people, including mainly Pandits, to leave their homes and hearths." She said the established potential that the Kashmir Pandit community has displayed and employed in emancipation of the society in the past was once again required to face the current situation.
The PDP leader said her party's focus was on building bridges between communities and uniting them for the welfare of everybody rather than emotionally exploiting one community or other for political survival. "We have enough bitterness and misgivings between us along community and sectarian lines but our coming generations have to work on our strong bonds of amity that have defined Kashmir through ages," she said.
She said that Kashmiri Pandits have to be stakeholder in formulating and implementing every plan that would be needed for molding a new welfare state where everybody feel secured and empowered. "If given a mandate to govern the state, PDP would carry forward the pragmatic policies to bring back the migrants to the Valley without any hype that unfortunately marked in agenda of other parties without any result on the ground," she said. The members of Kashmiri Pandit community submitted a memorandum of demands to PDP president in which they demanded the representation of Kashmiri Pandits in both the Houses of the state Assembly.
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