Kashmir: Why have babus and BJP reversed course on scrapping Roshni scheme?

Kashmir: Why have babus and BJP reversed course on scrapping Roshni scheme?
Bureaucrats who gave away state lands are fearful of the CBI investigation into their conduct, the BJP is wary of upsetting its Hindu voters in Jammu.
Mehraj D Lone
After the Jammu and Kashmir High Court declared the State Land Vesting Ownership to the Occupants Act of 2001 unconstitutional on October 9, leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party castigated Kashmir’s unionist politicians for “brightening their own homes while pushing the poor into darkness” – wordplay on the name by which the law is popularly, Roshni Act.
Going a step further, the BJP leaders sought to ascribe criminal intentions to the unionists by calling the court’s order a “surgical strike” against “land jihad”, a conspiracy theory peddled by the Hindutva ecosystem that Muslims have forcibly taken over land belonging to Hindus, especially in Jammu region. Kavinder Gupta, the state’s former deputy chief minister, outlandishly alleged that the law and its implementation were a “

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