{"id":8744,"date":"2016-06-28T15:14:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T15:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=8741&preview_id=8741"},"modified":"2016-06-28T15:14:46","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T15:14:46","slug":"bjp-demands-minority-status-hindus-kashmir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=8744","title":{"rendered":"BJP Demands Minority Status For Hindus In Kashmir – Jagruk Bharat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Minister for Social Welfare Sajjad Lone Thursday said there is a need to \u201cmerge Muslims of Kashmir into mainstream India as they have suffered immensely due to violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYour demands will add fire,\u201d Lone said, replying to demand of BJP legislators to declare Hindus as minority in Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is time to merge Muslims of Kashmir into national mainstream of India; they need incentives and healing touch as they have suffered a lot due to violence over the years,\u201d Lone said, replying to \u00a0queries of BJP MLCs in \u00a0the Upper House.<\/p>\n

He rejected the BJP legislators\u2019 plea to declare Hindus as minority in Jammu and Kashmir, saying declaring minorities is the dominion of the central government.<\/p>\n

Citing examples, the minister said Jammu has a Hindu majority and Kashmir has a Muslim majority. \u201cBy this logic we cannot declare minorities at block levels, we have to follow the national criteria,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Responding to a clubbed query of MLCs Vibodh Gupta, Dhrambir Singh and Charanjeet Singh whether the state government intends to set up a minority commission, the minister said there is no such proposal.<\/p>\n

Lone said no community has been declared as Minority by the state.<\/p>\n

However community-wise percentage of declared national minorities in the state is as: Muslim 68.31%, Sikh 1.87%, Christian 0.28%, Buddhist 0.90% and Jain 0.02%.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, the reply of the minister could not satisfy the BJP legislators who stood up from their seats demanding that Hindus be declared as minorities in J&K.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a human right violation with Hindus that despite being in the minority they are not getting benefits which minorities throughout the country get,\u201d he said, adding that the BJP has been demanding setting up of minority commission in the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven chief minister Mehbooba Mufti has said that J&K has Article 370 that accords special status to J&K, so the state government can amend or create any law itself and has authority to create the minority commission as well,\u201d Gupta said.<\/p>\n

Gupta also staged a walkout from the House in protest against the government\u2019s \u201cfailure\u201d to accept the demand of BJP legislators to grant minority status to Hindus in the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a long-pending demand of the actual minorities of the state,\u201d Gupta said. \u201cIt is irony that you are not declaring 30 percent population as minority; it is injustice with them as they are being deprived of various welfare schemes of the government for minorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

BJP MLC, Chiranjeet Singh said even ruling PDP in its election manifesto had announced that they would give Sikhs minority status but till now the government is silent on the issue.<\/p>\n

Another BJP MLC, SurinderAmaradar said after migration of Kashmiri Pandits, now Sikhs living in Kashmir are migrating. \u201cThere is need to address the issue of the minorities in the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

While intervening during the Question Hour, the National Conference legislator Qaiser Jhamshed Lone said since the BJP has taken over control at the Centre, the minorities are fleeing from the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: BJP Demands Minority Status For Hindus In Kashmir \u2013 Jagruk Bharat<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minister for Social Welfare Sajjad Lone Thursday said there is a need to \u201cmerge Muslims of Kashmir into mainstream India as they have suffered immensely due to violence.\u201d \u201cYour demands will add fire,\u201d Lone said, replying to demand of BJP legislators to declare Hindus as minority in Jammu and Kashmir. \u201cIt is time to merge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1153],"tags":[346,1152,242,90,887],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}