Nalwa Demands Nomination of Sikhs To J&K Assembly

JAMMU July 29: Welcoming the bill to nominate two members, including a woman, from Kashmiri migrants and one from the displaced persons of PoJK to the J&K legislative assembly, J&K BJP Minority Morcha president Ranjodh Singh Nalwa today demanded nomination of Sikhs too to the assembly.

Nalwa, who called on BJP general secretary Ashok Koul here along with other minority morcha office bearers, said that this was a long pending demand of the Sikh community.

“Sikh community has from time to time raised from different platforms the demand of nomination of a community member to the legislative assembly,” he told Koul and urged him to take up this demand of the community with the top BJP brass.

He said, while Sikh community was happy on the introduction of the bill to nominate two KP migrants and one PoJK refugee to the assembly, it was unhappy over the exclusion of its name from the bill.

Koul assured the minority morcha members that he would definitely take up their demand with those matter.

The bill provides for representation of Kashmiri migrants, displaced persons from PoJK and Scheduled Tribes in the legislative assembly of Jammu and Kashmir so as to preserve their political rights as well as their overall social and economic development.