Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir unit of the BJP on Thursday alleged that the minority community in Kashmir Valley has been systematically marginalised on socio-economic and political fronts over the decades and the practice continues.
This, the party alleged, has relegated the community to the fringe of the social milieu.
“The minority community in Kashmir Valley has been systematically marginalised on socio-economic and political fronts over the decades and this systematic exclusion continues even today,” BJP vice president G L Raina told reporters here.
It has relegated the community to the fringe of the social milieu and ultimately resulted in its physical expulsion in 1989-90, he alleged.
“Not only did the successive administrations fail to take any steps to arrest or reverse this policy of exclusion and marginalisation, they were also unsuccessful in developing strategies to guarantee equal, secure and sustainable progress,” he added.
Raina accused the governments of denying the opportunity to the affected community to contribute to the state’s progress and claimed that there is immense dissatisfaction among its members.
He cited absence of legal mechanism to protect and preserve temples, slow implementation of the Prime Minister’s development package, benefits of welfare schemes not reaching the displaced community as some failures of the successive governments.(Agencies)
