‘Amendments discriminatory, wanton curtailment of people’s rights’ says Ali Muhammad Sagar
Srinagar 4 November (KNB): The Jammu and Kashmir National Conference said that the people of Jammu and Kashmir see the changes to land laws as a double assault on their political history as well as their future and that the party will continue to strive for restoring honor and dignity of people.
Party’s General Secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar and Provincial President Kashmir Nasir Aslam Wani said this while presiding over a monthly review meeting with Party’s Zone Presidents Mohammad Akbar Lone, Ali Mohammad Dar, Dr. Bashir Veeri Vice Provincial Presidents Mohammad Syed Akhoon, Syed Tauqeer and District Presidents Altaf Kaloo, Sheikh Ishfaq Jabbar, Gh Mohiudin Mir, GR Naaz, Abdul Majeed Bhat Larmi, Qaiser Jamsheed Lone, Abdul Ahad Dar, Showkat Hussain here at Party Head quarters Nawa-e-Subha, Srinagar. Provincial Secretary Showkat Mir, Women’s wing PP Sabiya Qadri, JS Azad, GH Rahi, GN Tailbali were also present.
On the occasion the Party General Secretary and Provincial President led the functionaries in paying homage to Senior Party Member, Former MLC Late Nasir Khan Sahib, who breathed his last week. The Party functionaries also offered Fateh for the deceased, prayed for peace to his soul and fortitude to the bereaved family members.
While interacting with the functionaries Party General Secretary said that the new land laws clear the decks for the revival of neo-Jagirdari system in J&K.
With no bar on the maximum land holding, the government has opened the floodgates for big corporations to buy large chunks of land. The new land laws serve the purpose of big businesses at the cost of locals, he said.
“New land law notification and nullification of state’s own land laws has become a pivot which has united the people of Jammu and Kashmir. From a socialistic political entity, J&K through successive executive orders and notifications has been shorn of its prized emancipative political history. The wanton curtailment of the rights of people of J&K is going unabated, the latest land laws is a point in case”, Sagar said.
Adding,“The state’s own land laws represented the collective will of the people of J&K which they had exercised by choosing their legislatures; however the laws, 12 in number were done away with by a stroke of an executive order devoid of democratic bearings. The changes reveal the deflection of New Delhi on its solemn promises it had made to the people of J&K from time to time”.
Party’s Provincial President Nasir Aslam Wani, while addressing the functionaries said that a year after the unconstitutional rescinding of the state’s status, the socio-economic situation of its people has worsened as never before.
He said that the deteriorating governance and administration in J&K gives credence to the widespread belief of people that it is land only that matters to the incumbent ruling dispensation at New Delhi. The new lands laws, he said reeks of discrimination.
“Why is it that land safeguards are denied to people of J&K only, and granted elsewhere in other states? The blabber on the integration of J&K with the rest of country, bring it at par with other states stands debunked on account of the everyday orders and notifications that reeks of discrimination and signaling to marginalize the natives of J&k,” Wani said.
Further said that the proposed development, job extravaganza and development are nowhere detectable on ground, and that the state has been thrown into an abyss of chaos.
During the meeting, the participants expressed dismay at the lack of development, electricity outages across Kashmir. Party issues including reconstitution of YNC and Women’s Wing were also discussed in the meeting.
On the occasion Party’s district and Zonal Presidents gave their estimation of the prevailing ground situation in Kashmir division. (KNB)