People’s Democratic Party (PDP) president and former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Sunday urged the National Conference (NC) to support her party’s private member bills, which are set to be tabled in the upcoming budget session.
“It will be my request to Omar Sahib to support the passage of our bills,” Mehbooba told reporters in Pulwama.
PDP legislators have submitted three private member bills for the upcoming Assembly session, commencing from March 3.
PDP legislator from Pulwama Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra moved a private member bill titled “The Jammu and Kashmir (Regularization and Recognition of Property Rights of Residents in Public Land) Bill, 2025”.
The bill seeks to confer the ownership rights on the people who have been living on the state land for the last two decades.
The other two bills pertain to the regularization of daily wagers and liquor ban.
“During my tenure, I had introduced an SRO for the regularization of thousands of daily wagers, but we could not move ahead as the government collapsed. We have now moved a bill to ensure their regularization”, Mehbooba said.
She said that drugs and liquor were destroying families and to curb it, PDP had moved a bill.
Regarding the property rights bill, Mehbooba said, “The poor who live on Kahcharai land, as well as the schools built on such land, should be granted ownership rights”, she said.
Referring to Jammu and Kashmir Assembly Speaker Abdul Rahim Rather’s directive to the members of the House to desist from giving publicity to the bills and resolutions to be taken up in the upcoming session, Mehbooba said the job of the Speaker is to safeguard the rights of the members of the House and not to intimidate them. She said that bills and resolutions should come into the public domain so that they could be debated.
