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In a unsocial protest, leaders of Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) connected Monday (June 8, 2026) ploughed paddy fields to reason the administration’s determination to instrumentality implicit a immense tract of onshore from farmers successful southbound Kashmir’s Pulwama.
“A fewer days ago, a section tehsildar warned members of 400 villages not to sow paddy seedling successful fields dispersed implicit 3000 kanals (375 acre) of land. The villagers were warned of a First Information Report (FIR) if they measurement wrong fields. We person been sowing the onshore for much than 80 years. What volition hap to our families and cattle, which are babelike connected the yield,” said Shabir Ahmad, a husbandman from Pulwama’s Padgampora.
He said tiny patches of 3-4 kanals of onshore were being utilised by locals to procure atom and provender for cattle. “If the authorities takes the land, it volition person a terrible interaction connected locals,” said Mr. Ahmad.
To basal with the farmers, section legislator Waheed ur Rehmaan Parra ploughed the paddy fields for cultivation. “It’s a symbolic enactment of absorption against the onshore concern run and eviction of section farmers,” said Mr. Parra. The PDP person planted atom seedlings successful the paddy fields astatine Padgampora wherever the tehsildar had warned of constabulary action.
PDP person Iltija Mufti, who besides joined the farmers, accused the Revenue Department of “trying to snatch 2000 Kanals of fertile cultivation onshore successful Dangerpora successful Pulwama from mediocre families who’ve cultivated paddy present for centuries”.
“Like Sidhra demolitions successful Jammu, the J&K authorities excessively is misusing constabulary to instrumentality these amerciable diktats by threatening to slap Public Safety Act against protesters. Kashmir’s onshore belongs to its people,” said Ms. Mufti.
Ms. Mufti asked the J&K Police “not to interfere successful governmental matters”. “PSA is simply a beardown anti-terror instrumentality and should not beryllium slapped connected radical warring for their genuine rights similar land,” said Ms. Mufti.
Following the PDP protests, erstwhile District Development Council vice president and elder NC person Mukhtar Ahmad Bandh besides ploughed the paddy lands astatine Dangerpora, Padgampora, successful Pulwama arsenic a people of protest.
