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POJK DISPLACED PERSONS OR REFUGEES?

YB WEB DESK. Dated: 8/5/2020 9:15:10 AM

Dr. Ram Chander Sharma India is on boil with the passage of Citizenship Amendment Act 2019 adopting persecuted on religious basis the minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan. The people especially the students from Minority colleges and universities and off course the opposition parties to present ruling NDA Government of India stoking the violent protests. But, after 73 years of their exile the unfortunate Pak Occupied Jammu and Kashmir Displaced persons (POJKDPs) are tagged with a terminology never used in any part of the world the real persecuted two million POJKDPs on religion basis and who faced Holocaust soon after the nefarious partition of Indian sub continent in the year 1947 under a preplanned conspiracy hatched by Britishrers and western allies. Whatever the case may be no human can be displaced for long long more than seven decades and not cared or heard in the largest democracy of the world India. The worst ever genocide after the formation of United Nations in 1945 of Hindu and Sikh religious minorities of erstwhile Independent Dogra Kingdom of Jammu and Kashmir was ruled by the last Dogra Ruler Maharaja Hari Singh on 15th August 1947 who decided to remain independent as per the Indian Independent Act and extended Standstill agreement to both new demonian India and Pakistan but India was undecided and Pakistan army with the chosen Tribal attacked the western boundaries of the kingdom by mass massacre of Hindu Sikh minorities annihilating more than two lac of unarmed civilians, raping women and abducting more than two lac young women and children as sex slaves and auctioning them openly in Pakistan and other countries. The hapless minorities who escaped the genocide entered the safe areas of Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of India as Refugees. They were accommodated in makeshift camps and others went to other parts of India for survival. According to GOI records 41000 POJKDPs were recorded as DPs by the Provincial Rehabilitation Officer Jammu in the year 1947 and 22700 families were settled in agricultural land in Jammu and Kashmir 3600 families in urban areas, 5300 families in other states of India by a discriminatory J&K Cabinet Order 578 C in violation to GOI Displaced Persons Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 1954 by decreasing it to half in terms of land allotment and ex gratia. Moreover the compensation in lieu of left over moveable and immoveable properties were never paid to POJKDPs of Jammu and Kashmir till date. The irony is that the crucial period of migration was notified as Sept. 1947 to December 1950 and who were held captive and released latter on were not considered DPs but most cruel is the fact that the cases of 9500 were rejected on flimsy ground as the head of family didn’t migrate with family or whose family income was more than Rs. 300 pm at that time.