Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik has said the Kashmiri migrant Pandits would require separate townships of their choice and setting up such habitations is not a matter of choice but out of necessity.
Mr. Malik told a newspaper that it is the job of the Kashmiri leaders to make an effort to convince their society as according to him, the “best course would have been that those who have taken away their homes invite them back.”
Adding that Kashmiri migrants home can only be returned by those that snatched it, he said “the feeling of unity has to be provided by the genuine political leadership over here. Do any of these leaders say this to them?”
They come to the valley even now because they have grown up over here and they holiday here, can’t live without it, Malik told.
“I am just trying to provide them (Pandits) an alternate accommodation so that they have a home, a school and security,” Mr.Malik was quoted saying. “Separate township is not a matter of choice but out of necessity. We have to give them a nice place to stay, of their choice.”
He also said that the government was working on the places which they have identified for their accommodation, he was quoted saying. “There are several that are there, In Pulwama and in other places. We won’t just settle them anywhere but in nice places of their choice. We will give it to them for free.”
Earlier senior BJP leader Ram Madhav has also said that his party was committed to the return of the migrant Kashmiri Pandits and their security.
