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Jammu, January 17, (Scoop News)-A record was created when two cricket players, a Kashmiri Pandit and a Kashmiri Muslim, joined hands in Dubai’s Kashmir Super League (KSL) match and scored over 250 runs.
Captain Rajab Abid scored 142 not out in 62 balls with the help of seven fours while Sandeep Bhat scored 109 not out in 58 balls from nine fours and eight sixes during a match played on January 4, reports circulated on social media said.
The team Razey Kadal Falcons (RKF) trounced Safakadal Stars because of the record partnership of the two opening batsmen.
14 teams named after various places in Kashmir valley are participating in the tournament which is being played at the Ajman Cricket Council grounds in Dubai.
Abid a resident of Barbar Shah, Srinagar and Sandeep Bhan who was a class 5th student when he along with his parents had to migrate from Bagh e Mehtab area in the Valley to Ghazziabad (UP) in 1990 following the eruption of armed insurgency. Both of them are working in Dubai.
Three other Kashmiri Pandits are also playing, for the first time, in the cricket league being played as an attempt to rebuild the ruptured relationship between the communities. The timing of the tournament is also crucial as 30th anniversary of displacement of Pandit community from their native places in the Valley will be observed during the fixture of tournament.
The two communities parted on a bitter note when a miniscule aboriginal community of Kashmiri Pandits was subjected to forced exodus and uprooted nearly four lakh people from their moorings.
Over 20,000 Kashmiris including about 3,500 Kashmiri Pandits are at present residing in Dubai in pursuit of their occupations or vocactions.
On January 19, the community marks the ‘Holocaust Day’ to observe the stressful events of 1990 when hundreds of thousands of majority Muslim community members came out on roads across the Valley. They raised pro religion and pro Pakistan slogans and frightened minorities which resulted in a virtual collapse of civil administration that led to mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits.
On their arrival in Jammu, they had to live in sub human conditions in tented accommodations, then in one room tenements and now in the rickety and neglected two room sets called townships, like at Jagti, Nagrota, Muthi, Purkhoo, Buta Nagar and elsewhere on the outer peripheries of the capital city. Thousands of other Pandit families went to Delhi and to other parts of the country and have settled there since then.
Despite several packages announced by the Central Government for Kashmiri Pandits return over the years, the expectations are fading now as the Valley is getting mired in a ruthless cycle of violence and extremism among the youth.
Incidentally, during the BJP- PDP coalition government, the state legislative assembly unanimously adopted a resolution in 2017 calling for creating a ‘Conducive atmosphere for the safe return of people’ but the task remained hedged.
“Resettlement of Pandits back in the Valley appears to be a distant dream unless the Central Government shows its seriousness and remains unwavering on the issue,” said Ashok Raina, a businessman.
Surprisingly, the successive state governments including the BJP-PDP led coalition ignored the recommendations of the Parliamentary Standing Committee in Home Affairs like cancellations of all distress sales of immoveable properties by the displaced community members and issuance of a white paper on militancy and exodus of Kashmiri Pandits three decades ago.g
In 179th report, the Standing Committee had expressed “dissatisfaction with the evasive reply” of the state government on the issue of “encroachment” and hence the members of the Committee had decided to discuss the issue with the community members.
The displaced community members had informed the members of the Committee that not only the mafia groups but the prime land of Kashmiri Pandits including the land belonging to religious places has been grabbed by the government departments for construction of schools, dispensaries. water supply schemes, bus stands without informing the concerned land owners or providing any compensation thereof.
Pertinent to mention here that the government needs to understand that though J&K Migrant Immovable Property (Preservation, Protection and Restrain on Distress Sales Act)- 1997 is there and on paper the Government is the Custodian of migrant property but actual situation on the ground is entirely different and in contrast. Some foolproof mechanism is needed that would ensure full and practical implementation of the Act.
“Let Revenue and Police Departments jointly constitute an Action Committee to examine and execute current cases of illegal occupation of migrant lands, orchards,” said Moti lLal of tehsil Lar.
The land in terms of the section 4 of Partition Act which disallows a stranger to use any share in the dwelling houses which includes the land underneath and uppurtenant thereof which might have been purchased from any shareholder and how the authorities issued the permission of alienation without verifying revenue records of joint/ undivided property, he asked. ... |
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