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A legislator from northbound Kashmir connected Wednesday (May 13, 2026) boycotted the anti-drug run of Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha aft the constabulary demolished the location of a section from his constituency successful northbound Kashmir “in an eight-year-old lawsuit wherever the accused was acquitted and not convicted”.
Sheikh Khursheed, a person of the Awami Ittehad Party (AIP) who represents the Langate constituency successful northbound Kashmir, did a Facebook unrecorded of the demolition of a two-storey location connected May 11 and aboriginal decided to boycott the L-G’s ft march successful northbound Kashmir’s Baramulla and Handwara “as a people of protest”.
“The alleged demolition thrust of the BJP and the L-G is aimed astatine making locals stateless successful the sanction of an anti-drug drive. There are violations of the directions of the Supreme Court (SC) that nary location volition beryllium demolished without announcement oregon an order. In this case, officials I spoke to informed maine they had nary orders. Still, bulldozers demolished the house,” said MLA Khursheed, who is besides the member of incarcerated Member of Parliament Engineer Rashid.
He said the affected household had managed to conception the location aft “selling a portion of land”.
“The household was not capable to adjacent displacement apparel oregon utensils. All are buried nether the debris. The misdeed of the household is that 1 of the members was booked nether the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act 8 years ago, was acquitted aboriginal and is presently moving arsenic an worker successful Srinagar. He is not a convict,” said Mr. Khursheed.
He said the L-G took retired a ft march to curb the cause menace successful Kashmir. “If helium is disquieted astir our health, wherefore is liquor not being banned too?” said Mr. Khursheed.
Mr. Khursheed urged the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Superintendent of Police (SP) to halt “setting targets for demolitions” successful districts. “We volition sound connected the doors of the High Court. People of Langate volition not tolerate specified drives,” said Mr. Khursheed.
He besides asked elected representatives of different parties to question the L-G implicit what helium described arsenic “arbitrary actions”. “Why are they soundless implicit the issue? Why is J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah silent?” helium said.
The MLA sought enactment against bureaucrats and politicians progressive successful encroachments successful J&K. “Senior BJP leaders person encroached onshore and constructed houses illegally successful Jammu. The Chief Minister promised enactment connected the level of the assembly. Why was nary enactment taken?” said Mr. Khursheed.
Meanwhile, L-G Sinha connected Wednesday (May 13, 2026) joined the ‘Nasha-Mukt Jammu Kashmir Campaign’ Padyatra successful Kupwara and addressed a gathering. “For decades, radical successful J&K saw drugs and coercion arsenic abstracted threats. But they are not 2 problems; they are the 2 heads of the aforesaid snake. One caput makes wealth done drugs portion the different uses that wealth to substance terrorism,” said Mr. Sinha.
In the past 1 period of the campaign, authoritative figures said 700 locals progressive successful the cause menace person been arrested and dozens of houses person either been demolished oregon attached by the police.
On a demolition thrust successful the Langate area, the constabulary said it demolished 2 shops and 2 residential rooms of “notorious NDPS accused” Abdul Rehman Bhat, a resident of Shartpora Langate. According to the police, Bhat constructed the location “illegally connected Kahcharie (community) land”.
“The demolition thrust was carried retired successful the beingness of the Executive Magistrate 1st Class and different acrophobic officials aft completing each ineligible formalities. The spot was identified arsenic being linked to narcotics-related activities and formed portion of the broader violative against cause traffickers and their enactment infrastructure,” the constabulary said.
