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| Azad seeks Amit Shah's intervention over land eviction drive in J&K | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 2: Democratic Azad Party (DAP) chairman Ghulam Nabi Azad has sought intervention of Union Home Minister Amit Shah against the ongoing land eviction drive in Jammu and Kashmir, where aggrieved people continued their protests at different places on Thursday.
The National Conference and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) also demanded an immediate end to the drive, while J&K BJP requested the Lt Governor-led administration to restrict the campaign to politicians, police officers and bureaucrats who have "misused" their power in the past to grab the land.
Azad called upon Home Minister Shah in New Delhi on Wednesday and apprised him about "serious unrest and uncertainty" prevailing among the public at large in Jammu and Kashmir due to the eviction drive launched by the administration to remove encroachments on state land including Roshni and Kacharai, the DAP said in a statement here.
It said the former chief minister requested the Home Minister that the majority of occupants who are holding small lands and have constructed houses for the last few decades are migrants and are mostly victims of militancy, as well as victims of abnormal situations arising from time to time, being a border state.
"This is also a fact that the governments provided road connectivity, supply of water and electricity, schools, anganwadi centres and other welfare schemes including health-related facilities to these houses from time to time which implicitly indicates that successive state governments in a way have recognized these constructions," the DAP said.
It said Azad requested the home minister that at least poor people having small holdings of land and houses should be spared from the eviction drive.
"The Home Minister assured Azad that small land holders will not be harassed," the statement said.
While thousands of people including women and children continued their protests in Kunjwani-Bhatindi area on the outskirts of Jammu city for the fourth successive day against the eviction notices, members of Jammu Kashmir Kissan Tehreek led by senior CPI(M) leader M Y Tarigami staged a protest in Kathua district town against the eviction drive. |
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