Anyone can now buy land in Kashmir valley: LG Sinha

New Delhi, Feb 27: Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Tuesday said that anyone can now buy land in the Kashmir valley and Kashmiri Pandits now feel powerful and empowered.

“We have become economically strong. Jammu and Kashmir was the place where even the President of India could not take an inch of space. An Indian soldier could sacrifice his life to protect Jammu and Kashmir, but could not build even a hut there,” he said this while elaborating on the positive changes made in the last four years in Jammu and Kashmir while speaking at TV9 Bharatvarsh Global Summit: What India Thinks Today?

“This is a big transformation. From social point of view, the work of empowering 100 million people has been accomplished under the leadership of Prime Minister, Narendra Modi,” he added.

On being asked about what has been the development in Jammu and Kashmir in the past four years, he said that “I observe that today people of all religions have the freedom to celebrate their festivals in Kashmir. The picture here has changed.

He referred to the Kashmiri Pandits saying that the community had been suffering for a long time, and now they are feeling powerful. The backward classes of society had reservations in jobs, panchayat elections and education in other parts of the country, but not in Jammu and Kashmir, now they are getting all those things. Kashmir has changed since the abrogation of Article 370. Peace cannot be bought here now. There flourishes good governance only.

‘What India Thinks Today’, a global level Summit, is being held in the national capital Delhi.

The event, being hosted by TV9, India's number one news network, has begun to deliberate deeply on several significant issues including the country's politics, governance, economics, health, culture and sports.

Apart from PM Narendra Modi, Home Minister, Amit Shah, Defense Minister, Rajnath Singh, Union Ministers Anurag Thakur, Bhupendra Yadav and Smriti Irani, Railway Minister, Ashwini Vaishnav, Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor, Manoj Sinha, Uttar Pardesh Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath, Assam Chief Minister, Mahimanta Biswasrama, Delhi Chief Minister, Arvind Kejriwal, Congress President, Mallikarjun Kharge, Uttarakhand Chief Minister, Pushkar Singh Dhami, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Mohan Yadav, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister, Vishnu Desai, Haryana Chief Minister, Manohar Lal Khattar, Punjab Chief Minister, Bhagwant Man, AIMIM Chief, Asaduddin Owaisi, Congress leader, Pawan Kheda, Yoga Guru Baba Ramdev and former NITI Aayog CEO, Amitabh Kant will also present their views in 'What India Thinks Today'.

Besides, prominent figures from arts and sports world including former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, former Maldivian Defense Minister, Maria Ahmed Didi, Velina Tchakarova, former India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Syed Akbaruddin will also express their views.