By Scroll Staff
Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Vikram Randhawa on Friday alleged that residents of the Kashmir Valley had illegally occupied land belonging to the Jammu Development Authority in Jammu city, The Hindu reported.
The claims made by Randhawa sparked a political row.
Raising the matter in the Assembly, Randhawa claimed that more than 16,000 kanals of land in Jammu had been encroached and claimed that 90% of it had been occupied by persons from the Kashmir Valley.
“The Jammu and Kashmir government should probe and take action,” he said.
He further alleged that the alleged encroachments were a “sinister move to change the demography of Jammu”, The Hindu reported.
He said that there would be no objections to Kashmiris purchasing land and building houses in Jammu by following due process, but they should not do so on government land, PTI reported.
Outside the House, the BJP MLA alleged that the government had been withholding the list of alleged encroachers because they were Kashmiris.
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