Protesting Kashmiri Pandits demand high-level panel for talks

Government employees from the Kashmiri Pandit community who are staging a protest here against the alleged stone pelting on their transit camp in the Valley today demanded that the government set up a high-level team to hold talks and find a solution to their "miseries".
Their protest at the Relief Commissioners Office (RCO) entered the 20th day today.
"Our members have been protesting for the past 20 days but no representative from the government has bothered to hold talks with the protestors here," Chairman of the All Party Migrants Coordination Committee Vinod Pandita said.
While BJP has formed a four-member committee to hold talks with the protesting employees, the state government is yet to send a representative to enquire about the issues faced by the community, he said.

"Additional Director General of Police S M Sahai has acknowledged the fact that the transit camps of Kashmiri pandits were attacked. When VVIPs, houses of ministers are being attacked with petrol bombs, how can we say that minorities will be safe there," Pandita said.
The state government and the Centre has "turned a blind eye" towards the "miseries" faced by the community, Pandita alleged and demanded that a high-level committee be set up to hold talks with the protesting employees.

"It is evident that the situation in Kashmir is not conducive for these employees to join there. The government should hold talks with these protesting employees and find a solution for their miseries," he said.

Kashmiri Pandit workers employed with the government have refused to return to their jobs in the Valley after the alleged stone pelting on their transit camp.
More than 1,600 displaced Kashmiri Hindu youths had been recruited under Prime Minister's Special employment package and posted in Kashmir voluntarily.
Most of these employees escaped from Haal transit accommodation in Pulwama, Baramulla, Kupwara transit camps, Vessu and Mattan KP employees colonies in Anantnag district after the unrest began and managed to reach Jammu.