India pumps more troops in disputed Kashmir triggering fears New Delhi may revoke a constitutional provision, Article 35A, allowing Indians to buy land in the Muslim-majority region
A senior security official, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said the deployment was to guard against possible protests about a decision or event, without giving further details.But locals say they were worried that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's right-wing government want to set aside a constitutional provision –– Article 35A –– which would allow Indians from outside the disputed territory to purchase land there.
Modi's nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party vowed to strip decades-old special rights from the people of Kashmir during elections earlier this year provoking warnings of a backlash by pro-India as well as resistance groups in the region. "It's pretty unlikely India will fiddle with 35A but the troop build-up has set the alarm bells ringing across Kashmir," Kashmir-based senior journalist and analyst Shabir Hussain told"It has set the panic button on among Kashmiris and they are prepared for the worst.
"The speculation among low-rung police officers is that it's either about Article 35A or some major announcement about the resettlement of Kashmiri Hindus who were displaced at the onset of Kashmir conflict in 1989-90."will resemble Palestine with 'illegally legal' settlements dotting the valley & Kashmiri towns being packed up in open air prisons like Gaza in their own home.
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