BJP ally and Union Minister of State Anupriya Patel has objected to the passage of the Uttar Pradesh authorities’s Invoice on Nazul land, calling it “pointless” and “in opposition to the general public sentiments”.
Demanding fast withdrawal of the Invoice, Patel on Thursday tweeted that the Invoice was tabled with out correct deliberations. “I imagine this Invoice isn’t just pointless but in addition in opposition to the general public sentiments. The UP authorities ought to withdraw this Invoice instantly and motion needs to be taken in opposition to the officers who mislead within the matter,” Patel, who’s the nationwide president of Apna Dal (Soneylal), added.
The state Meeting on Wednesday handed the UP Nazul Property Invoice that stops the conversion of Nazul land into personal freehold.
Earlier than the passage of the Invoice, BJP MLA from Prayagraj Harshvardhan Bajpai had additionally spoken in opposition to his personal authorities’s Invoice, saying: “On one hand, we’re giving homes to the poor beneath the PM Awas Yojana, and then again, we’re telling hundreds of households to get out. We’re taking the land. Ye nyaysangat nahi hai (This isn’t lawful).”
One other BJP MLA from Prayagraj district, Sidharth Nath Singh, additionally flagged the Invoice, saying his solutions needs to be considered. Singh mentioned that these with bonafide possession of Nazul land ought to get their lease renewed.
Beneath the UP Nazul Property Invoice, 2024, Nazul land – land owned by the federal government however typically circuitously administered as state property — within the state can not be transformed into personal possession. Any courtroom proceedings or purposes requesting the switch of full possession of Nazul land to personal people or establishments will likely be cancelled and robotically rejected.
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