‘Give Us Same Rights As Migrant Kashmiri Pandits’
Sanjay Tickoo is the leader of Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti, the group of the members of the community that didn’t migrate from Kashmir in 1990. In this interview, Tickoo tells
Umar Mukhtar that the Pandits who stayed back have been ignored by the government.
Kashmiri Pandit Sangharsh Samiti (KPSS) President Sanjay Tickoo is on a fast-unto-death at the historic Ganpatyar temple in old Srinagar city for the rights of the non-migrant Pandit community of Kashmir.
KASHMIR LIFE (KL):
You recently held fast-unto-death to press the demands for your community?
SANJAY TICKOO (ST): This was to protest the non-implementation of employment schemes resulting in financial hardships for the non-migrant members of the Pandit community. Our community has some demands that are not fulfilled by the government for the last three years. We were told to wait for some time but nothing happened. I felt that the only way to highl