Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 4: Expressing concern over the eviction drive initiated by the administration against the encroachments by the vested elements and mafia on Government land, Yudhvir Sethi, vice president, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Jammu and Kashmir urged the J&K administration not to harass the people having small chunks of land, using it for their livelihood.
In this regard, Yudhvir Sethi today joined the local shopkeepers of Pargalta in Jammu East constituency who staged protest against the eviction notice issued to them by the administration.
Sethi also took the matter with the Divisional Commissioner, Jammu and apprised him that these people are residing on the State land for the last so many decades and using the same for their livelihood. He assured the protesters for taking up their matter with the authorities concerned and will not allow the administration to do injustice with them.
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 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Sethi said that after abrogation of Art 370, the Jammu and Kashmir Government repealed Roshni Act to stop such a blatant and gross misuse of this law.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.
Asserting that there is dire need to take action against the big sharks, Sethi appealed to the J&K administration further tighten the noose against them 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 small chunks of land and are using the same for their livelihood.
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