‘Exempt people with less than a Kanal using it for farming’
STATE TIMES NEWS
JAMMU: Yudhvir Sethi, Vice President Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Jammu and Kashmir has strongly castigated the leaders of various political party leaders for raising unnecessary hue and cry over the administration’s order on eviction drive against the encroachments by the people on Govt land including the Kahcharai and the land encroached largely in the garb of Roshni Act.
However, he appealed to the Govt to exempt the poor people who are holding less than one Kanal and using it for agriculture purposes and intensify action against the rest especially the big sharks.
The BJP leader stated this here today after visiting Majalta, Aithem, Pargalta, Ragoora, Sidhra, Majeen, etc falling in the Jammu East Assembly Constituency and interacting with the people to be effected by eviction drive.
Ajay Sharma, President BJP Mandal Bajalta also accompanied the J&K BJP Vice President.
The senior BJP leader said that Roshni Act was introduced to benefit the farming community but the same was misused by the then NC regime by allowing agricultural land go into the hands of influential people and using it for non-agricultural purposes especially commercially using the said land for multiplying their already mammoth assets leaving the common people high and dry.
Sethi said that after abrogation of Art 370, the Jammu and Kashmir Govt repealed Roshni Act to stop such a blatant and gross misuse of this law. He said that it is an open secret that big sharks got hundreds of Kanals of land transferred in their names under the Roshni Act and this is against the basic tenets of the Democracy.
Sethi said that since all the big sharks who benefitted from the misuse of Roshni Act belong to the political parties like National Conference, PDP, Congress therefore the leaders of these parties are feeling highly upset by the order of the Government issued in full compliance of law.
He said that fearing strict action under law against them these very culprits are now inciting the common people to come on roads. He said that the order is welcome by the law abiding people of this Union Territory and people want that action be taken against the big sharks which is in the offing.
Asserting that there is dire need to take action against the aforesaid big sharks, he appealed to the J&K Administration further tighten the noose against the big sharks and get them dispossessed of the State land grabbed under Roshni Act or otherwise.
However he made a fervent appeal to the Lt Governor Manoj Sinha not to take any action against such people who are holding less than one Kanal of land and are using the same for agricultural purposes.
