“I was warned that if I don’t open the shop today, they won’t allow me to open it on Thursday either,” said a shopkeeper in Srinagar, requesting anonymity. The strike call was announced through a poster circulated on social media on Tuesday.
The J&K administration has been carrying out demolition of structures for retrieval of land, as part of an anti-encroachment drive across the Union Territory for the past few weeks. Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has said that poor peoples’ homes and shops won’t be demolished. However, officials in charge of the drive have not made such distinction based on perceived social and economic status, as per ground reports.
Former CM Mehbooba Mufti, meanwhile, urged people to not cede control of state land or any other land under any circumstance. “They are enforcing everything in J&K through the barrel of a gun… Land in J&K belongs to the people. I urge people of J&K to take control of their lands.”
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