No Barrier For Kashmir Now dailyexcelsior.com
Article 370 and 35A was deleterious in nature. It was damaging the non-Muslim minorities in the state of Jammu and Kashmir for last seven decades under various political dispensations. Though all ruling political dispensation was claiming to be secular, democrats and liberals, yet they practiced communal cards in favor of Sunni Muslims of the valley making Indian Govt. handicap and helpless with such constitutional provisions of Article 370 and 35A.
Beyond doubt, deprivation was caused to the people of the state hitting hard the refugees from Pakistan, in 1947 partition and settled in the Jammu region of the state. To date they were not given citizenship rights in the state. which resulted in their illegibility for state and central services, though being qualified youth. They could vote for parliamentary election but not for state Assembly or for the Panchayat board. Bank loans for business purposes or for higher educational studies or any scholarship from any Govt were denied to them. Their only curse was that they were Hindus. Valley-based obscurantist made an issue out of it, that granting of citizenship right would alter the demographical ratio of the state against Muslim majority character. These refugees in the state are living impoverished life along the borderlines in acute pecuniary conditions. Their hutment enclaves are within the firing range of the enemy guns from across. State-run medical dispensaries benefits for their ailing and infirm members were not permissible to them. Loans for building of livable shelters for their families or own any piece of land for their cultivation or breeding of their livestock are denied to them.
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