Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 1: While the ongoing anti-encroachment drive against the big land sharks, politicians, bureaucrats, and influential persons has been welcomed by the majority of law-abiding citizens of Jammu & Kashmir, PDP chief, Mehbooba Mufti is using the same to instigate members of a particular community to turn it into a law and order problem playing her usual victim card and communal assault, alleged Brig (retd) Anil Gupta, spokesperson of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
“Her call to the people of J&K to unitedly rise against the administration is a clear act of provocation against the Government that is implementing the orders of the High Court. In doing so she has once again displayed her hatred for the Constitutional authorities and Indian Army by involving the LG and Army authorities and terming Raj Bhavan and Badami Bagh Cantonment as encroachment of the State land.
Blaming Mehbooba for spinning lies to provoke the people Brig Gupta reminded her that the Army is in occupation of the land that belonged to the erstwhile State forces of the Maharaja as it was decided to hand over the possession of such land to the Indian Army after the unilateral ceasefire declared by Pandit Nehru in 1948.
In fact, the palatial bungalows occupied by the politicians on Gupkar Road, also belong to the Army as it was the property of the State Forces, he added.
“In her hate-filled tirade, she also blamed the BJP for using the anti-encroachment drive to persecute the people of J&K and uproot them from their homes,. Her statement is contrary to the assurances given time and again by the LG that the rights of the common man and poor man will be secured and their land will not be touched’’, Brig Gupta said.
The LG has further assured that only powerful and influential people who misused their position to encroach upon the State land will surely be evicted. The turn of events so far clearly indicates that the Government is committed to its stand but Mehbooba is trying to unnecessarily politicize the entire exercise, asserted Brig Gupta. “I challenge Mehbooba Mufti to give even one incident of a poor man’s house being demolished’’, he added.
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