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NC-Cong Govt failed us: Sikh Coordination Committee
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Friday, 21 March 2014
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Appeals Sikh community to hold its votes for upcoming Lok
Sabha polls
Srinagar: Accusing the state
government of discrimination with the Sikh community, All Parties Sikh
Coordination Committee (APSCC) has asked the members of Sikh community to hold
their votes for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
In a statement issued to KNS, APSCC Chairman, Jagmohan
Singh Raina said that Sikh voters should not fall prey to the hoax promises
given by the leaders of political parties especially National Conference and
Congress. He said both NC and Congress have failed to fulfill the genuine
demands of the community that are pending for long now.
“One wonders on what agenda the leaders of the
ruling alliance in the state would come before the Sikh voters and seek their
votes. The present coalition dispensation has miserably failed to solve the
genuine problems of the Sikh community. As such these people don’t have moral
or ethical authority to seek votes from Sikhs living across the state,” said
Raina.
Raina said that the 23 years of turmoil has shattered the
standing of Sikhs in the state more so those living in the Kashmir valley. He
said members of various Sikh groups under the banner of APSCC met Chief
Minister, Omar Abdullah and other senior functionaries in the state government
for redressal of their grievances.
“The problems being faced by the community are being
deliberately kept un-attended under a plan thereby causing numerous problems to
the people. The state government miserably failed in extending the National
Minorities Act to the state. This is despite repeated reminders by National
Commission for Minorities and also Sikh groups functioning under the banner of
APSCC. The extension of Minorities Act was fully funded by centre and there was
no burden on state exchequer,” said Raina.
Raina said that Sikhs constitute an important component
of the electorate in the majority of the Lok Sabha seats. He said members of
the community would ensure that ‘exploitative’ elements are not allowed to
enter the parliament and that their genuine problems once again take a
backseat. “Under the mass contact programme we have already educated the Sikh
voters in both rural and urban areas not to vote for people who have deceived
them over the past many years. We have also told the members of community to be
vigilant from various agents within the community since they are hell-bent on
causing harm to the common good of the community,” said Raina.
Raina said that Sikh suffered huge losses in agriculture
and horticulture after being forced to migrate from the villages and settle in
the city and other district headquarters. He asked the members of Sikh
community to put their votes on hold and said that next course of action would
be decided in due time. Even after 14 years of the Chittisinghpora
episode, in which around 50 people were killed in Chittisinghpora, Pathribal,
Brakpora, including 36 Sikhs of Chittisinghpora, no inquiry has been
constituted which we have been regularly demanding and it is very sad that
nothing concrete has come out.
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