For the first time in the history of independent India, such a program was held in Jammu, which brought the displaced people of slave Kashmir settled in different parts of the country on one platform. Collective tribute and Punyabhoomi Remembrance Sabha again healed the dry wounds of displaced families who were uprooted from their land and culture in 1947. Surendra Jain, Union Joint General Secretary of Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), who became emotional after hearing the story of the atrocities committed on the ancestors by the tribals at the behest of Pakistan.
He roared and said that look at these displaced, who faced so much trouble there, left land and property, but did not leave their religion. These displaced are determined. They don’t need compensation but want Mirpur, Kotli, Muzaffarabad. The blood that our brothers and sisters have shed is not for compensation, but for getting their territory. Jain said that J&K is incomplete without Mirpur, Muzaffarabad, Gilgit, Baltistan and it should be taken back. Article 370 is now history. Today the issue is that the resolution which was passed in the Parliament in 1994 to get rid of slave Kashmir, that resolution should be fulfilled.
On behalf of the People’s Forum Jammu and Kashmir, a program was organized in the grounds of Padma Sachdev Memorial Government Women’s College, Gandhinagar in Jammu to pay collective tribute to the martyrs of slave Kashmir and to commemorate the holy land. On this occasion, Surendra Jain of VHP, pointing towards Abdullah family said that since three generations this family has been looting the state, but not anymore. The future of the state will now be decided by the people who attended this program. He also raised a demand from the central government that elections should be held in at least eight of the 24 assembly seats in Jammu and Kashmir, reserved for Kashmir.