Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 8: Accusing the National Conference (NC) and Congress of misinterpreting the present State Subject law of Jammu & Kashmir by saying that it is the same as the one framed by Maharaja Hari Singh in 1927, BJP National Executive Member & J&K Chief Spokesperson Dr Jitendra Singh today released the documentary evidence to prove that Maharaja’s State Subject law was very much different and far more progressive as compared to the State’s Permanent Resident Certificate (PRC) law currently in force.
Unlike the PRC Act, Maharaja’s State Subject law did not impose a blanket ban on outsiders from settling in the State and infact, left enough room for non-J&K residents to become State Subjects wherever it was found desirable or in the interest of the State for various reasons including betterment of State’s economy, he added.
To substantiate the point Dr Jitendra Singh said, Maharaja’s State Subject law recognized four classes of State Subjects. In Maharaja’s law, Class 111 allowed State subject eligibility to those outsiders who acquired immovable property and fulfilled certain conditions after ten years of continuous residence while Class 1V allowed eligibility to Companies which have been registered as such within the State and which, being companies in which the Government is financially interested or of economic benefit to the State where is such a provision in the existing PRC law of the State, he asked.
In other words, Dr Jitendra Singh said, this means that according to the PRC Act currently in force, for any outsider from any other part of India, the pre-condition, as per Section (b),is residentship in the State for not less than ten years prior to the cut-off date of 14 May 1954,which thus debars any Indian from claiming eligibility for PRC if he or she did not come to reside in J&K before 1944.This clause has, among other things, also resulted in denial of citizenship rights to the West Pakistan refugees settled in J&K after 1947.
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