J&K polls: BJP promises seats for Kashmiri Pandits, voting rights for refugees from Pakistan

For Kashmiri Pandits, the BJP vows to “initiate the process of justice and honorable re-settlement of Kashmiri Hindus in Kashmir valley”, and to create liveable conditions in Jammu and elsewhere until rehabilitation is completed in the valley.

On refugees, it promises to “settle the genuine claims of 1947 refugees from PoK; give compensation to refugees of 1965 and 1971 and all border migrants,” and to “grant citizenship rights, including right to vote in assembly and local body elections, right to property, right to higher and technical education, right to state government jobs to refugees from west Pakistan”.

Largely centred on Jammu, it promises Dogra certificates to people of that region. The promise was once made by the NC-Congress but the coalition backtracked after protests from Kashmir. The document promises to develop tourism in J&K on the lines of Switzerland, and “to initiate steps for the resumption of pilgrimage to Sharda Temple and make provisions for a Sharda University, as also the inclusion of Devnagri as an alternative script for Kashmiri language”.
With PTI in Jammu