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The Rajasthan Cabinet connected Wednesday (January 21, 2026) approved a Bill to designate definite areas successful the State arsenic “disturbed” to code the contented of distress merchantability of properties and infringement of tenants’ rights during communal violence. The Bill volition beryllium tabled successful the upcoming fund league of the State Assembly.
Law Minister Jogaram Patel said aft the Cabinet gathering successful Jaipur that the areas affected by violence, mob unrest, oregon “improper clustering” — with a alteration successful demographic illustration — could beryllium declared arsenic disturbed. The transportation of immovable properties successful specified areas without anterior support of the competent authorization volition beryllium null and void.
The projected authorities has been titled arsenic the Rajasthan Prohibition of Transfer of Immovable Property and Provisions for Protection of Tenants from Eviction from the Premises successful Disturbed Areas Bill, 2026.
“We person noticed that the colonisation of a peculiar assemblage is expanding accelerated successful definite areas… The demographic imbalance disturbs communal harmony and creates difficulties for imperishable residents. The concern during riots and nationalist unrest warrants a peculiar instrumentality to woody with these issues,” Mr. Patel said.
The Minister said the imperishable residents of the areas affected by communal unit were often forced to merchantability their properties astatine debased prices. The Bill, which volition woody with this situation, has made the offences committed successful usurpation of its provisions non-bailable and cognisable, and punishable with imprisonment ranging from 3 to 5 years and a fine.
While the Bharatiya Janata Party authorities claimed that the caller instrumentality would assistance support communal harmony and societal structure, the Opposition Congress expressed outrage and described the Bill arsenic a measurement to instrumentality guardant the ruling party’s governmental agenda, based connected its “communal mindset”.
Pradesh Congress Committee president Govind Singh Dotasra said the statute was being brought to “legitimise the BJP’s hooliganism” and destabilise a peaceful State similar Rajasthan. “This Bill has been drafted connected the signifier of a akin instrumentality enforced successful Gujarat. It is intelligibly meant to make an ambiance of fearfulness and springiness unbridled powers to the bureaucracy,” helium said.
Mr. Dotasra, astatine a property conference, said that the Bill would not lone pave the mode for the BJP to sow discord successful society, but it would besides deter investors from the State, trim trade, and alteration the onshore prices. “Demographic imbalance is not a ineligible term. There is nary notation of the ground connected which an country volition beryllium declared disturbed. The BJP wants to stay successful powerfulness by pursuing the Gujarat model,” the PCC main said.
Other decisions taken astatine the Cabinet meeting, presided implicit by Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, pertained to the adoption of the State’s archetypal semiconductor argumentation and a caller aerospace and defence policy, aimed astatine positioning Rajasthan arsenic a large manufacturing and services hub for high-technology industries.
