The State government has evicted 25 former legislators and parliamentarians from the official quarters “illegally” occupied by them, while the eviction notices have been sent to 32 other political persons mostly former MLAs and ministers.
The official documents accessed by the Kashmir Post reveal that the “eviction was not restrictive in nature but was initiated against all those occupants who have ceased to be entitled to retain the same”.
The J&K Estates department has started the eviction process of vacating official quarters “illegally” occupied by the former ministers, legislators, Members of Parliament and other political personalities.
To start with the former ministers, MLAs and MPs who have been evicted so far are ex-MP T S Bajwa, ex-MLA Gharu Ram Choudhary, ex-MLA Girdari Lal, ex-MLA Ghulam Mohiddin, ex-MLA Sheikh Rafiq Ahmad, ex-MLA Syed Abdul Rashid, ex-MLA Abdul Majid Mir, ex-MLA Yogesh Sawhney, ex-MP Ali Mohammad Naik, ex-MLA Shabir Ahmed, ex-MLA Balwant Singh Mankotia and ex-MLA Ghulam Mohiuddin Sofi.
Similarly, the eviction notices, as per the official documents, have been sent to former MLAs, ministers and MPs which include Harsh Dev Singh, former minister Ajay Sadhotra, former MP Madan Lal Sharma.
Sharma had given the undertaking that he would vacate by April 2018.
The eviction notices have been also sent to former legislators Ravinder Kumar Sharma, Jagjeevan Lal, Qazi Jalaluddin, Mohammad Aslam Khan (who has given undertaking to vacate the quarter by ending May), Ex-MLAs Ghulam Qadir Wani and Chaman Lal Gupta (both of them have given undertaking to vacate by April 2018) and Shafiq Mir who is Chairman All J&K Panchayat Conference.
The eviction notices have also been issued to the families of former ministers Mushtaq Ahmad Lone and Abdul Aziz Zargar.
However, the government has not issued any eviction notice to several other former legislators and other political personalities who are mostly from the ruling party and have kept them “under consideration”.
The three former chief minsters, late G M Shah, Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Farooq Abdullah, according to the official documents, would continue to “hold the official quarters as per the entitlement”.
According to the official documents, 11-SP-Gandhi Nagar is allotted to family of late G M Shah while B.No-1, Railway Road Jammu and B.No-7, Residency Road are allotted to Azad and Farooq Abdullah “as per the entitlement”.
The eviction notices to the two former ministers Mir Saifullah and Abdul Gani Vakil are sub judice under order numbers OWP number 595/2016.
Bashir Ahmad Malik, Ex-Chairman Municipal Council has been evicted from Tulsi Bagh quarters.
The other political personalities who evicted the accommodation and whose possession has been taken over by the Estates department are Muhammad Shafi, Abdul Gani Sheesha, Abdul Rashid Bhat, Mohd Shafi Shiekh, Abdul Hamid, Nazir Ahmad, Mohani Trisal and Safdar Ali Khan.
Similarly, around two dozen other lesser known political workers and their families have been sent the eviction notices, but that matter in most the cases is sub judice leaving the Estates department helpless to act.
“We have started the eviction process in phased manner. We are on the job. We have got the clear Court directions,” Director Estates, Tasaduq Jeelani told Kashmir Post.
Jeelani said over one 100 quarters were illegally occupied by influential people and they will be vacated.
Govt evicts 25 ex-MPs, MLAs, others from ‘illegally’ occupied quarters
