BUKHARI MEETS SHAH, RAISES CONCERNS OVER NEW DOMICILE RULES

Newly launched Apni Party president Altaf Bukhari on Friday met home minister Amit Shah and national security advisor Ajit Doval and expressed reservation on the domicile rights for Jammu and Kashmir which was recently notified by the Centre., Bukhari asked Shah to put this notification in an abeyance or make amendments.

SRINAGAR/JAMMU: Newly launched Apni Party president Altaf Bukhari on Friday met home minister Amit Shah and national security advisor Ajit Doval and expressed reservation on the domicile rights for Jammu and Kashmir which was recently notified by the Centre.

In the meeting, Bukhari asked Shah to put this notification in an abeyance or make amendments so that issues vis-a-vis this notification raised by people and leadership of the J&K will be mitigated. Bukhari said, “We are hopeful the suggestions will be considered.’’

Sources close to party leadership, however, said that Bukhari has been assured by the home minister that either the domicile rights notification would be put in abeyance or modification as per the wishes of people will be done.

KASHMIR IGP ISSUES WARNING

The mainstream political parties have taken a strong exception on the statement of Vikay Kumar, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir, for stating that those who will try to instigate people to cause trouble after changes in domicile law will be arrested.

POLITICAL PARTIES HINT AT PROTESTS

NC provincial president Devender Singh Rana on Friday termed the new Domicile Law as unjust and betrayal with skilled unemployed youth of J&K and said this should be withdrawn to safeguard mechanism in the larger interests of the bonafide locals.

“The latest move of the BJP-led government enlisting new definition of domicile is a step in continuity to humiliate and embarrass the people. First, the demotion of the state to UT and now yet another downgrading in the matter of employment is totally uncalled for and unacceptable,” said senior Congress leader Mohinder Bhardwaj.

The PDP termed it a direct attack on the freedom of speech. “Freedom of speech and expression means the right to express one’s own opinions freely by words of mouth, writing, printing or any mode,’’ said PDP spokesperson in a tweet.

The CPI (M) termed the statement of the senior police officer an attempt to browbeat to muzzle genuine voices.