SRINAGAR Chief Minister Omar Abdullah accused opposition PDP on Tuesday of bringing the land rights bill in the Assembly for the sake of politics as he said there are no safeguards in the proposed legislation for the residents of the Union Territory.

The bill introduced in the Assembly by PDP MLA Waheed Para on Tuesday was defeated by a voice vote.

“How can we pass a bill that helps the land mafia and illegal encroachers? In which, it cannot be said whether they are citizens of Jammu and Kashmir or have they come here recently and built houses, but we have to give them land,” Abdullah told reporters on the sidelines of a function here.

He was responding to a question on his government not supporting the private member’s bill brought by the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) MLA for providi

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