Congress asks LG to review series of anti youth, anti-people decisions

Jammu, 18-Aug 2020

Congress today launched a frontal attack on the BJP led Centre Govt. and UT administration for multiple decisions and orders against the overall interests of different sections of people especially the educated youths, including the recent executive order debarring displaced persons of 1947 from POJK with regard to transfer of their occupancy rights vested to them under existing law of legislature and urged the new LG to review such anti youth and anti-people decisions.
Addressing a press conference at party HQ here today, Chief Spokesperson of JK Unit of Congress Shri Ravinder Sharma pointed out several recent decisions which go against the interests of the people of different sections including the educated unemployed, self employed and temporarily employed youth besides the recent order of the Custodian General debarring displaced persons of 1947 from POJK area from transferring their occupancy rights without prior NOC which is against the law of the legislature vested to them under section 3-A of the Agrarian Reforms Act.
Flanked by General Secretary PCC Th. Manmohan Singh, Chairman of JKPCC Refugee Wing of the PCC Shri Vinod Sharma and PCC Secretary Incharge Media Neeraj Gupta, Mr. Sharma questioned the recent order issued by the Department of Custodian Evacuee Property prohibiting the exercise of legal rights granted to the displaced persons of 1947 from POJK by virtue of Section 3-A of Agrarian Reforms Act, whereby occupancy rights were given to them with right to transfer such rights by sale, mortgage, gift or exchange.
Hitting hard at the arbitrary and illegal order of custodian department banning the exercise of their rights without prior NOC, Mr. Sharma said that this order is patently illegal and arbitrary being contrary and contradictory to the law framed by legislature and totally against the interests and rights of refugees. He said that BJP has already betrayed them with regard to promise of Rs.30 Lac per family besides grant of reservation for their wards in the Central Paramilitary forces and in the technical colleges in the country, as recommended by the then State Govt. on the initiative of the Congress party and questioned the BJP as to when the left out amount @ Rs.24.50 Lac per family shall be released to these DPs.
Lashing out at the BJP for the new gift to the DPs, he said the BJP used to exploit the DPs and other occupants on the promise of granting full propertory rights to the occupants of the evacuee property, by abolishing the department, Mr. Sharma said the displaced persons are being deprived from exercising their valuable rights, which is very unfortunate and ill-advised and sought immediate revocation of the order.
He also demanded the long pending demands of grant of rights u/s 3-A to the displaced persons of DPs of 1965, 1971 be also granted being bonafied allottees of evacuee lands which is their due right and deprived so far.
Regretting that the UT administration has been taking series of decisions and passing unjustified orders like disbanding of self-help groups of engineers thereby more than 15 thousands technocrats would loose their livelihood, the move of privatization of PDD department threatening the career of employees and engineers especially 13000 daily wagers apart from over burdening the poor consumers, fresh apprehensions of around 4000 MGNREGA technocrats and employees working for 12 to 14 years, debarring higher qualified (above 12th ) from applying for class IV and various others such decisions including imposition of multiple toll plazas in Jammu region, against which the youths and the people were already showing their resentment and protests despite restrictions due to Covid. He said that even for dealing with Covid-19 situation, there are two set of norms for quarantine measures for Jammu region as in Kashmir , the asymptomatic patients are home quarantined while in Jammu they are put to quarantine Centers which lacks adequate facilities.
The congress leaders sought immediate review of all such anti-people and anti-youth decisions taken by his administration in the recent past as it has caused resentment against the UT administration and the Centre Govt. They said that if the Govt. fail to review such decisions , the Congress would launch vigorous movement to oppose such anti-people, anti-youth and anti-Jammu decisions of the UT administration and Centre Govt.