Omar Abdullah made an outburst claiming “the Centre has put Jammu and Kashmir for sale. Here is a fact check on his rhetoric and also the claim that agriculture land will slip away from small and marginal farmers of J&K, Ladakh.
The PM’s speech majorly dealt with the explanation of how the common people are benefitting by this move.
He said that the dream of Sardar Patel, Dr. Ambedkar, Dr Syama Prasad Mukherjee and Atal Bihari Vajpayee have fulfilled after the government’s move to revoke Article 370.
In all the states of India, stringent laws have been enacted to check exploitation of Dalits.
There is a Minimum Wages Act for the protection of rights of labourers in all the states of India but they got this protection only on paper in Jammu and Kashmir.
Under the new arrangement, central government will ensure that public employees of Jammu and Kashmir including the police have same benefits like LTC, HRA, education and health as given to their counterparts in other union territories.
Soon, the process to fill the vacancies pending with central and state government in Jammu and Kashmir will commence.
