Srinagar, Dec 27: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti today expressed dismay over opening the union territory to real estate investors. They alleged that it is being done with the malevolent intention to change the demography of the region.
The comments came after the Jammu and Kashmir administration signed 39 MoUs worth Rs 18,300 crore with the country’s real investors for the development of housing and commercial projects in the union territory.
“Once again the true intentions of the government are brought to the fore. While offering to secure the land, jobs, domicile laws & identity of the people of Ladakh, J&K is being put up for sale. People of Jammu should beware, ‘investors’ will buy up land in Jammu long before Kashmir,” Abdullah wrote on Twitter.
Mehbooba tweeted, “J&K’s special status was illegally revoked to dehumanize, dispossess & disempower the only Muslim majority state in India. GOIs brazen loot & sale of our resources shows that the sole motive is to annihilate our identity & change the demography.”
Apni Party President Syed Mohammad Altaf Bukhari on Monday said that efforts that aim at a holistic development and job creation in Jammu and Kashmir are welcome but not at the cost of domicile laws that safeguard land and employment rights of its permanent residents. He said that Apni Party will never allow any such move that undermines the rights of the People of Jammu and Kashmir.
