Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti Wednesday announced that the party had submitted a private member ‘The Jammu and Kashmir Land Rights and Regularisation Bill, 2025’ – also dubbed as the ‘anti-bulldozer Bill’ — in the forthcoming session of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly.

According to the party, the proposed legislation aims to regularise land holdings of individuals, families, and institutions who have been in “continuous possession of land for over 30 years”, with a view to securing ownership rights, preventing arbitrary evictions, and ensuring social and economic stability across Jammu and Kashmir.

Recalling the ongoing land and lease crisis in Gulmarg and other parts of Kashmir, Mufti said that the Land Grant Rules, 2022, have ended the renewal of old leases

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