Jammu residents staged protests in the city on Wednesday afternoon setting ablaze the copy of 39 Memorandum of Understanding (MoUs) signed by the Jammu Kashmir administration, in opposition of the real state policy.
On Monday, the Jammu Kashmir administration that it signed MoUs with 39 companies to establish their units in Jammu Kashmir while announcing the “real estate Policy”, during which the admin threw open land for all the citizens of India.
The protesters in Jammu said that the people of Jammu do not accept the real estate policy. “Without state subject and domicile, nobody should be allowed to establish any business unit in Jammu Kashmir,” the protesters said.
“We demand that the leaders of Jammu be united against the attempts to change the demography of Jammu Kashmir and fight the dangers to the state of ‘Maharaja Hari Singh’,” they said.
They said rather than focusing on growing unemployment, the central government wants to change the demography of the erstwhile state.” We want Jammu Kashmir and Ladakh to be united and the erstwhile state to be returned its statehood.
The former chief Ministers of Jammu Kashmir earlier reacted sharply to the signing of MoUs by the administration and said that Jammu Kashmir was put up on sale by the administration.
Communist Party of India (Marxist) commenting on the development said that the move showed up the real designs of Bhartiya Janta party.
Pertinently, the Modi led Government unilaterally abrogated the Article 370 in August 2019 followed by months of curfew and communication blockade. The article provide special rights to the natives of the states over jobs and land.