SRINAGAR: Kashmiri PanditSangharshSamiti (KPSS) President Sanjay Tickoo is on a fast-unto-death at the historic Ganpatyar temple in old Srinagar city for the rights of the non-migrant Pandit community of Kashmir. Tickoo said that the promises of government jobs for the Pandits who did not leave the valley have remained unfulfilled. He said they had filed a case in 2013 in the High Court for inclusion of non-migrant Pandits in the Prime Minister’s rehabilitation package for Kashmiri Pandits.
“The court gave directions asking the Centre and the State to consider our demands,” he said. “We were included in the PM’s package for return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits.” He said a quota of 500 government jobs was kept for non-migrant Kashmiri Pandits under SRO 425 but the process has been stalled without any reason. “The recommendation from the Centre and the state are not being implemented,” he said. “We demand government jobs for non-migrant Kashmiri Pandits in a time-bound manner.”