{"id":34980,"date":"2020-11-09T10:48:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T05:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=34980"},"modified":"2020-11-09T10:48:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T05:18:07","slug":"people-of-jk-have-right-to-decide-whether-or-not-to-sell-their-property-jitendra-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=34980","title":{"rendered":"People of JK Have Right To Decide Whether Or Not To Sell their Property: Jitendra Singh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>New Delhi<\/strong>: Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said abrogation of Article 370 provisions and changes in land laws allowing people from across India to purchase property in Jammu and Kashmir do not take away from the people of the Union Territory their right to decide whether or not to sell their property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>He claimed that the Kashmir-centric \u201cso-called mainstream leaders\u201d were feeling rattled because they would not be able to purchase properties in Jammu region so easily at low prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The people of Jammu will now have the advantage of choosing their buyers from a larger pan-India pool and also seek higher price, the minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The newly enacted land laws nowhere allow forcible occupation or taking over of anybody\u2019s property or even purchasing property without the owner\u2019s consent, said Singh, the Minister of State for Personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf that was so, the Gupkar bungalows would have been the first to be taken over,\u201d he told reporters here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister and National Conference President Farooq Abdullah lives in a bungalow on Gupkar Road in Srinagar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is a matter of common sense that abrogation of Article-370 grants people across India the right to purchase property in Jammu and Kashmir, but it does not take away from the people their right to decide whether to sell the property or not and whom to sell,\u201d Singh said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>He said Gupkar Road is the most preferred site, and, therefore, before warning the people of Jammu to protect their land from being taken away by outsiders, the \u201cso-called mainstream Kashmir-centric leaders\u201d should guard their own bunglows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe so-called mainstream Kashmir-centric leaders should first make sure to guard their own palatial bungalows constructed at one of India\u2019s most picturesque locations by the side of Dal Lake on such a majestic scale that they could give a complex to the royal palaces of erstwhile princess,\u201d the minister added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>In a gazette notification, the Centre has omitted the phrase \u201cpermanent resident of the state\u201d from Section 17 of the Jammu and Kashmir Development Act that deals with disposal of the land in the union territory, paving the way for people from outside Jammu and Kashmir to buy land in JK and Ladakh, over a year after the nullification of provisions under Articles 370 and 35A of the Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Before the repeal of Article 370 and Article 35-A in August last year, non-residents could not buy any immovable property in Jammu and Kashmir. However, the fresh changes have paved the way for non-residents to buy land in the union territory.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said abrogation of Article 370 provisions and changes in land laws allowing people from across India to purchase property in Jammu and Kashmir do not take away from the people of the Union Territory their right to decide whether or not to sell their property. 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