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Senior Kashmiri politician and leader of Awami National Conference on Tuesday stood to bulldozers in Srinagar's M.A road and called the admin to remove the Governor house in Kashmir, which he claimed was built on state land. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BifuO31h9Iw Eyewitnesses told The Kashmiriyat that on Tuesday afternoon, the revenue officials along with Jammu Kashmir Police personnel reached Hotel Nedous at M.A road claiming that the same was encroached on "state land," however, Muzaffar Shah came out holding the papers, which he claimed were the property documents and stood in front of the bulldozers. Reacting to the state land eviction drives, Muzaffar claimed that the Hotel Nedous was built in the year 1835 and the land is in possession of the third generation of the bui...

Several areas of Jammu City Monday observed a shutdown to protest against the ongoing eviction drive over state land in the region. Eyewitnesses told The Kashmiriyat that Sunjwan, Bathindi, and Malik Market and several other Muslim-populated areas in Jammu have shut down in protest against the eviction notices they have received from Jammu Kashmir admin. Watch Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYHFDWGDpXg Amid rain, Shops and other business establishments in the areas have shut down in the area. Several locals in these areas have received eviction notice including one Abdul Rashid Malik, a local who has donated his personal property in Sunjwan for the PDP office. As per the locals, a massive crowd has gathered at Nawabad area of Sunjwan in Jammu to protest against th...

The land acquisition drive on part of the administration triggered a massive protest in the Larnoo area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district. Watch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S5pgjiPmgk People living in far-off areas mostly from the tribal community participated in the protest in huge numbers. They denounced the policy of evicting people from the land terming it an injustice and anti-human. Notably, the JK admin has ordered the eviction of "encroachments" from the alleged state land by January 31 this month. The order has created widespread protests while politicians have expressed resentment, asking the government to reconsider the decision. The protest that was led by tribal leaders urged the LG administration to roll back the order saying that it will render ...

Meer Irfan The local residents agitated against officials of the Rural Development Department in Pulwama's Payar area during an eviction drive in the south Kashmir area. A local speaking to The Kashmiriyat said on Monday the employees of the Rural Development Department reached the Payar area to free a state land in the area and started cutting trees in a patch of land in the south Kashmir area. Watch Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHi7VmnwrIY "The grassland has always been used by people. We do not understand why have we suddenly become illegal occupants. The land was used by locals to graze animals. Many people have their almond trees planted in this patch of land, which is their only source of income, it seems that the admin wants to snatch our livelihood" a local ...