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Demography panel meets Jammu groups, faces AIP criticism
The Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) on Wednesday said the Centre's high-level committee on demographic changes ignored families displaced from their ancestral homes along the LoC in Kashmir. The committee, headed by retired…
The Story in Brief
The Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) on Wednesday said the Centre's high-level committee on demographic changes ignored families displaced from their ancestral homes along the LoC in Kashmir. The committee, headed by retired Supreme Court judge Justice Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar, arrived in Jammu on August 10 and has held interactions with civil society groups, visited a Kashmiri Pandit colony at Jagti, and inspected a slum allegedly housing Rohingya immigrants. BJP leader Sunil Sharma alleged Pakistan's infiltration and 'land jehad'. The AIP demanded the committee also hear Kashmiri Pandits and displaced families.
The Indian Opinion
This story is being framed as either a demographic conspiracy or a victim narrative. The BJP's 'land jehad' charge and the AIP's focus on LoC displacement both contain truths but ignore each other's evidence. The committee's final report will be the real test: will it quantify both illegal immigration and conflict-driven outflows, and propose remedies that are legally sound and humane?
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