Jammu, 15 May (H.S.): Alleging that with the merger of ration and relief of displaced Pandits from Valley with National Food Security Act (NFSA), Panun Kashmir (PK) today said this framework risks normalizing and consolidating genocide and urged the Narendra Modi-led Government to immediately modify the Act.

The administration had begun integrating migrant ration cards, including those of Kashmiri Pandits living in Jammu, into the NFSA database. The process, which began in early 2026, has sparked backlash from the community, PK chairman Dr Ajay Chrungoo told reporters here.

Dr Chrungoo said that while NFSA is intended as a welfare measure for economically weaker sections, its “mechanical extension” to victims of the “Kashmir Hindu genocide” without recognising their unique historical and civilisational trauma could turn a humanitarian programme into an “instrument of denial and consolidation of genocide”.

“We urge the Prime Minister and the Government of India to immediately review and suitably modify the present framework of the NFSA as applied to the internally displaced Hindus of Kashmir”, he said.

Dr Chrungoo said the Government must distinguish between poverty arising from ordinary economic circumstances and deprivation imposed through genocide, terrorism and forced displacement.

“Treating both categories identically amounts to obscuring the historical reality that caused the suffering of the displaced Hindu community of Kashmir,” he said.

He expressed concern that the present NFSA framework reduces displaced Kashmiri Hindus to a routine welfare category, thereby obscuring the targeted nature of their displacement and the violence inflicted upon the community.

“The inclusion of migrant families into ordinary welfare databases could gradually weaken the distinct recognition of their status as victims of forced displacement and genocide,” he said.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Krishan Kumar