J&Okay land regulations: Congress slams adjustments, guarded on Article 370
Up to date: October 29, 2020 2:41:37 am
Abhishek Manu Singhvi
An afternoon after the Centre allowed outsiders to buy city or non-agricultural land in Jammu and Kashmir, the Congress Wednesday slammed the transfer however signalled cautiously that it was once now not wondering the abrogation of Article 370.
At a press convention, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi sought to attract a difference between the revocation of Article 370 and the federal government’s determination on land.
He spoke about “3 compartments” within the context of Jammu and Kashmir. “There’s a revocation of (Article) 370 factor, there’s a statehood-versus-UT factor, and there’s a land factor. The Congress has adverse the final two categorically. The CWC answer makes it transparent.”
“Now this new land factor.. it does now not apply fundamental cannons of participatory democracy… you might be doing the politics of obstinacy, of domination.”
Asking whether or not the federal government held any discussion with the folks ahead of the verdict, Singhvi mentioned, “The solution shall be 0… even the minimum safeguards in this matter of land which might be discovered in numerous different states in India… they’re additionally now not right here.”
