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NATIONAL MINORITIES COMMISSION
FAVOURS KASHMIRI PANDITS WITH MINORITY STATUS - National Minorities
Commission today favoured giving "minority status" to the
Kashmiri Pandits, who were forced to leave their homes in the Valley
following the onset of militancy. Talking to mediapersons here, Commission
Chairman and Rajya Sabha MP Tarlochan Singh said though the Commission had
referred the matter to the Centre, the latter has yet to respond. He
said he had also advocated to include the Jains into minority community
list, but the centre has left the matter with the concerned state
governments. Singh said Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Uttaranchal and Uttar Pradesh had
already agreed to include the Jains into the list of minority community
and added that other states should follow it. He said the Commission had
recently conducted a survey on minority communities like Muslims, Sikhs,
Parsis, Christians and Buddhists. News Courtesy: Mr. Mahavir Sanglikar,
