Jammu, July 11, 2023 (PPI-OT): Senior National Conference leader Ajay Kumar Sadhotra has expressed serious concern over the Modi regime’s plan to distribute Jammu and Kashmir’s land to outsiders in the name of providing five marlas to ‘each landless’ Indian. Ajay Kumar Sadhotra speaking at a public gathering at Shah Badole in Samba district said, “The people are genuinely apprehensive about the outsiders being settled living in Jammu and Kashmir under the garb of the so-called PM Awas Yojana-Grameen (PMAY-G)”.
On the occasion, Surjeet Singh, NC Jammu leader, said the bonafide state subjects of Jammu and Kashmir will resist any compromise with the lands and jobs. “The sinister move, if any, to provide lands and jobs to the residents outside Jammu and Kashmir will be fought democratically and peacefully”, he said, adding that such a move will eventually lead to dolling out jobs to outsiders at the cost of the local educated unemployed and encouraging businessmen from the neighbouring Indian states to crush the economy of locals.
Referring to serious threat to J and K lands from the outsiders with the active patronage of the double engine government, Sadhotra recalled the landmark Land Reforms Act brought in by the National Conference, making the poor and landless masters of holdings overnight at the mutation of just Rs 2. How these poor people can part with their precious lands, he asked?
He cautioned the regime against parting with the land to outsiders and sought adequate land to be allotted to the poor families which have expanded during the decades.
It is worth mentioning here that already, the outsiders have made inroads in various businesses like liquor and minor minerals, seeking contracts and maintaining monopoly over toll plazas. The locals, especially the people of Jammu have started facing the brunt of the vicious conspiracy of diluting their identity and usurping their economic interests. The proposed one more toll plaza ahead of the Lakhanpur will be a huge burden on the people and the J and K economy.
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