Support for APMCC's hunger strike

Nineteen social, religious and political organisations lend support for opening Sharda Peeth shrine in PoK

PTI | October 10, 2011



BJP and Jammu Province Peoples Forum on Sunday extended their support to the indefinite hunger strike of APMCC chairman Vinod Pandit demanding setting up of J&K Temples Trust and opening of Sharda Peeth shrine in PoK for pilgrims.

So far 19 social, religious and political organisations in the state have lent their support to the hunger strike of Pandit and NGO activist Sunita Sharma as it entered third day on Monday.

"We extend full support to the indefinite hunger strike of All Parties Migrant Co-ordination Committee (APMCC) over their demands," BJP MLA and former state BJP chief Ashok Khajuria told reporters in Jammu on Monday.

Similarly, JPPF's President and former Judge Pavitar Singh also extended his support to the demands.

Kundan Kashmiri, National President Kashmiri Pandit Conference along with a dozen of KPC activists also arrived from New Delhi to sit on a day long hunger strike in support of Pandit's six-point charter of demands.

Pilgrimage to Shardha Peeth temple in Muzafarabad in PoK is closed since 1947.

The APMCC is demanding that India and Pakistan should hold talks over the issue and facilitate pilgrimage to the shrine.

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