JAMMU, Feb 18: Criticising an anti-encroachment drive being carried out in Jammu and Kashmir to retrieve State land, Dogra Swabhiman Sangathan Party (DSSP) president Lal Singh on Saturday said the lieutenant governor-led administration has no mandate to take such a decision that is rendering people “homeless and jobless”.
Singh also alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is deliberately delaying the Assembly polls in the Union Territory as it is afraid of facing the voters, who are angry with its policies.
“This is not an anti-encroachment drive, but a criminal act under which they are harassing the public and taking away their land, demolishing homes and businesses. The LG-led administration is the encroacher here and not the public,” Singh, a former Jammu and Kashmir minister, told reporters here.
