Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Nov 3: Former Union Minister and veteran Congress leader Prof Saif-ud-Din Soz has said that the Central Govt wants to implement its pre- planned agenda in J&K, which is not going to yield any advantage to it.
“One fails to understand the urgency of the Central Govt to do everything that is unpalatable to the people of J&K State,” Prof Soz said in a statement here today.
“Our land laws were finalized in the present form during Maharaja Hari Singh’s time.
The paramount condition was that the land both agricultural and non-agricultural would be purchased by the people genuinely domiciled in J&K State. The popular Govt did not change these laws and effected some changes in these laws in the J & K Legislative Assembly, democratically,” Soz maintained.
He said the successive Governments ensured that any transfer of ownership of land took place amongst the bonafide residents of J&K State only. Now, the Central Govt seems to be dead-set to cause unease in minds by entitling outsiders to buy land in J&K State. The spokesperson for J&K Union Territory Govt tried uselessly to convince J&K people that the amendment in land law was being affected genuinely. The Union Govt should leave all such matters to the duly elected Govt in future, Soz added.
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