Urges Centre to notify Hindus as minority in J&K UT
NL Correspondent
Jammu Tawi, Nov 07
The Jammu Municipal Corporation in its general house session that held on Wednesday adopted unanimous resolutions that included the one which proposed to levy one per cent tax on all the land/house registries within its limits. The proposed levy is to be realised from the new Registration Department which has been assigned the work of Registration under new law. Another resolution was adopted to name the Janipur-High Court Chowk in the name of last Prime Minister of Jammu and Kashmir state, Sh. Mehar Chand Mahajan.
JMC adopted another important resolution that urged the Centre for declaring Hindus as minority in J&K Union Territory. The Resolution was moved by Surinder Sharma, a BJP Corporator of Ward No. 38 from Janipur. The resolution said, “The actual minorities in erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir – Hindus, Buddists, Sikhs, Jains, Christian etc have so far suffered a lot to the hostile attitude of the earlier state governments who never took a holistic view of the state of actual minorities in J&K state and usurped funds amounting crores of rupees received from the Union Government on account of welfare schemes and projects for minorities to the state under Prime Minister's 15 Point Programme for the Welfare of Minorities and passed on the benefits of all such Welfare schemes to the Majority Community in Jammu and Kashmir.”
“The National Minorities Commission Act 1992 was not extended to the state of Jammu and Kashmir thus depriving an opportunity for the true minorities in J&K for being notified as minorities by the Central government under Section 2 (C) of the said NMC Act. Further the benefits under PM's 15 Point Programme meant for the actual minorities in J&K were not given by the government as the said programme was not statutorily binding on the state governments”, the resolution elaborates.
Sharma while reading the resolution further said that passing of J&K Reorganisation Act 2019 by the Government of India which has come into force on October 31 this year has fully integrated the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir to the Union of India and people are lucky enough that henceforth all the Central laws are now applicable to J&K without exception and so is the National Minorities Commission Act 1992.
He said that since the minorities in J&K had been suffering tremendously for the last over seven decades and with the emergence of new order, have great hope that their long denied rights and entitlements be implemented at earliest possible without any further delay in the nitty-gritty of of transition of the state into UT.
The house later passed the resolution unanimously.
