SRINAGAR, Jun 8: PDP MLA from Pulwama Waheed Para and PDP Leader Iltija Mufti joined local farmers in paddy transplantation as a mark of protest against the Jammu and Kashmir government’s attempts to evict the land tillers.
Waheed Ur Rehman Para drove a tractor as he ploughed a paddy field and later joined the farmers in sowing paddy saplings and “The authorities had destroyed the saplings and threatened the farmers with the Public Safety Act (PSA) if they cultivate the land again. So I joined the farmers in cultivating the land again.”
PDP leader Iltija Mufti, who also visited the Padgampora area of Pulwama, questioned the government’s intentions behind trying to prevent cultivation of the fertile land and this is an agricultural land and farmers have been growing rice and mustard for more than 100 years.
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