‘Exempt people with less than one Kanal’
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 17: Yudhvir Sethi, vice president, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Jammu and Kashmir has strongly castigated the leaders of various political parties for raising unnecessary hue and cry over the administration’s order on eviction drive against the encroachments by the people on Government land including the Kahcharai and the land encroached largely in the garb of Roshni Act.
However he appealed to the Government 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 for multiplying their already mammoth assets leaving the common people high and dry.
Sethi said that after abrogation of Article 370, the Jammu and Kashmir Government repealed Roshni Act to stop such a blatant and gross misuse of this law.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.