All Parties Hurriyat Conference has expressed great anguish at the administration’s “another move to further scrap Jammu Kashmir land laws” and revoke the rights of local communities to “cultivate state, community, and evacuee land in order to facilitate the creation of private land banks and hand them over to outsiders to set up industries in Jammu Kashmir.”
In a statement issued on Thursday, Hurriyat said that the move will further disempower and marginalize locals, of both the Jammu Kashmir regions, especially the economically disadvantaged class.
APHC said that the people of Jammu Kashmir are already at the receiving end since the revocation of 35A when the Government of India notified that any Indian citizen can purchase non-agricultural land in the new Union Territory and subsequently further notified a new set of rules that allowed the change of title of agricultural land to non-agricultural on fulfilling conditions.
After the so-called “Roshni land scam case”, marginal farmers who got state land regularised under the Jammu Kashmir State land Act, became the targets of the state, retrieving land from them.
APHC said that all these are attempts to accelerate and facilitate the settlement of outsiders in Jammu Kashmir in order to bring about demographic change in the composition of the state while keeping the locals entangled in fighting for basic sustenance.
APHC condemns this mindset, read the press release.
It said that these actions will only vitiate the atmosphere as the sense of insecurity and frustration among people of JK increases and they will naturally react to such moves
We ask the authorities to desist from such diktats and revoke these anti-local laws, Hurriyat said.
APHC asks both the governments of India and Pakistan to come to the dialogue table and resolve the Kashmir conflict and give real peace a chance in the subcontinent
Once this issue is resolved the mistrust and insecurities that both countries have will cease and the people of Jammu and Kashmir will also be spared the incessant assault on their identity and freedoms, Hurriyat said in the press release.