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Jammu & Kashmir
Staff Reporter
JAMMU: Fresh demands by the top leaders of the coalition government in the State to scrap the Resettlement Act, which was passed by the Legislative Assembly in 1982, has triggered a new debate. (The Act sought resettlement of those who were State subjects before May 15, 1954 and who had migrated after March 1, 1947 to the territory now included in Pakistan.) The Chief Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, said that no person would be dispossessed of the land allotted to him from property left behind by the evacuees to Pakistan in 1947 or even later. Most of the allottees were people who migrated from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. But the Deputy Chief Minister and Congress leader, Mangat Ram Sharma, said his party would seek the scrapping of the controversial legislation so that people living in Pakistan can never re-claim their ancestral property in Jammu and Kashmir, triggering a fresh debate. "We are soon approaching Governor Lt. Gen. (retd.) S.K. Sinha and the Chief Minister in this connection and to seek scrapping of the Act," he said, while unveiling of the statue of Gen. Zorawar Singh, here on Saturday. Mr. Sharma added that this would allay the fears, particularly of the tenants of evacuee property. The Congress leaders have also supported the Deputy Chief Minister's demand. However, the National Conference (NC) has protested against any move to scrap it. The NC Leader of Opposition, Abdul Rahim Rather, who moved the Bill in 1982, said: "The Bill should not be scrapped as we had passed it to solve the problem of the people who went across the border."
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