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JAMMU: Jailed Baramulla MP Engineer Rashid’s Awami Itihaad Party (AIP) said Sunday it had submitted an assembly solution seeking citizenship and ineligible presumption for erstwhile militants’ wives and children who came from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) nether a 2010 rehabilitation policy.
The J&K assembly’s fund league begins connected Monday.Langate Shiekh Khursheed, AIP MLA and Rashid’s brother, said those who came nether the rehabilitation argumentation proceed to stay without citizenship oregon ineligible recognition, starring to denial of their basal rights including education, healthcare, employment opportunities and individuality documents.The UPA govt astatine the Centre had announced the rehabilitation argumentation successful 2010 during Omar Abdullah’s earlier stint arsenic main curate of the erstwhile J&K state.
Omar had past described the rehabilitation of specified militants arsenic a “humanitarian contented with thing sinister oregon dangerous”.Officials had, however, cited stringent criteria and said lone 350 of implicit 1,200 applications were accepted. Citizenship for specified families has been a long-pending demand, with PDP having backed it earlier.Addressing a quality league connected Sunday, Khursheed explained the AIP’s resolution.
“The solution urges some the J&K govt and the Centre to assistance citizenship oregon due ineligible status, contented valid domicile and individuality documents, and guarantee dignity, information and law safeguards for these individuals,” said Khursheed, the lone MLA of his party.Dwelling connected different issues, Khursheed pushed for steps to guarantee Mehraj Malik, Doda’s arrested AAP MLA, is allowed to be the assembly session.
Khursheed said helium had personally handed implicit a missive to main curate Omar past week requesting him to convene an all-party gathering and walk a solution urging LG Manoj Sinha to guarantee Malik’s beingness successful the House. Malik, AAP’s lone MLA successful J&K, was held past twelvemonth nether the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) for allegedly misbehaving with elder officials during a protest.Khursheed said helium had submitted different assembly solution seeking transportation of each powerfulness projects successful the Union Territory to the J&K govt.
“This volition assistance guarantee cheaper electricity, fortify powerfulness infrastructure and heighten revenue.”Khursheed lamented that helium had submitted respective resolutions successful the 2025 fund league but nary was taken up. These pertained to merchandise of governmental prisoners, restoration of Article 370 and J&K’s statehood. “I americium hopeful my party’s resolutions volition beryllium taken up this time,” Khursheed said.
