Allow J&K residents stranded outside UT to return: Bukhari to L-G

Tribune News Service

Jammu, April 15

Jammu and Kashmir Apni Party (JKAP) president Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Wednesday took up the issue of J&K residents who are stranded in various states of the country with Lt-Governor GS Murmu.

Talking to Murmu on phone from Delhi, Bukhari sought his intervention in shifting of the stranded people of Jammu and Kashmir, especially students, pilgrims, labourers, businessmen and patients who are stuck up in different parts of the country in view of the Covid-19 lockdown.

The JKAP president remarked that Murmu agreed to facilitate and allow the return of residents of J&K who were presently stranded at Madhopur-Pathankot and Lakhanpur entry points.

“There are around 4,500 people of J&K who are stranded at these entry points, despite completing their quarantine period and testing negative for coronavirus. I am hopeful from my discussions with the Lt-Governor that all these stranded residents of J&K, including students, pilgrims and the businessmen, will be allowed to return to their homes from today,” Bukhari said.

He said Murmu had also assured him that within next two days, the J&K administration would also facilitate evacuation of the residents of J&K, especially students and pilgrims, who are stranded at Jaisalmer in Rajasthan and Amritsar in Punjab.