One more sickular arrow from the depleting quiver of special minority people. The writer is biased and hide many things that should be presented, It is fact that one cannot buy land in HP and Sikkim but one can buy an apartment/flat or condominium unlike J&K where rest of Indians cannot buy even an apartment or condo.
Kashmiris should not hide behind Himachal and Sikkim issue. The issue should be discussed for all states and totally abolished. If you claim to be citizen of India and enjoying all the benefits (sometimes more than what is deserved), why do you require separate laws and articles to protect such time-barred provisions which has no significance in this modern world and which are only becoming a tool in the hands of all sections of the society who are interested in separating the people of India over one issue or the other.
In Himachal or Sikkim there are no separatist. Himachal and Sikkim, are not eating away the resources from other parts of India as J&K does. What J&K contribute to the rest of the nation ? Are they an asset or a liability to the other parts of the nation ? There should not be any special status to any particular state. People of the country respective from any state,should have the freedom to settle down the place where they wish to.
Uttarakhand also require this type of law to save the identity of its original inhabitants as outsiders thronging here day by day. Its leaders are purely dumb and making money from outsiders giving soaps to them.
Kashmiris are right in protesting when land purchases is not allowed in many other states of NE India,Sikkim, HP. Therefore central government should come out with a policy like Gujarat & Maharashtra to allow purchase of land to agriculturists all over India. Even the IT exemption under Schedule 6 should be abolished now as it is not relevant after so many years of development of all regions. DR S S SANGWAN
The Congress, the communists, the intellectuals are all communal to the core. There is hardly any act by the Government that can be viewed by these people in an unbiased manner. Every act by Government is viewed from majority-minority angle only. And these are supposedly called secular by main strem media. What a joke
