New Delhi, Mar 25: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today assured Kashmiri pandits staying in Kashmir valley that all steps will be taken to ensure that attacks on the community will not be allowed to recur. The government will also soon come out with a "rehabilitation policy", including a financial package for the Kashmiri migrants, displaced more than a decade back due to militancy in the valley, Vajpayee was quoted as assuring a Kashmiri pandit delegation that called on him here.
"Vajpayee assured us that after the return of deputy prime minister L K Advani, on a visit to yesterday's massacre site, the matter will be taken up with Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Mufti Sayeed and the government will ensure that in future such incidents against Kashmiri pandits will not be repeated," Delhi BJP president Madan Lal Khurana told reporters here.
The Prime Minister also assured the delegation that the government would soon consider a policy for rehabilitation of Kashmiri migrants, Khurana said.
The delegation expressed its concern over the security of pandits staying in the valley in wake of yesterday's massacre.
Khurana said, "We requested the Prime Minister for proper rehabilitation of Kashmiri migrants and also demanded adequate security for the pandits staying in the valley at present."
Presenting a memorandum demanding an inquiry into attacks on pandits, the delegation, comprising, head of BJP cell on Kashmir C L Gadoo, also rejected the government's proposal of creating "special secure places" for migrants in the valley.
Bureau Report