Encroachments by community members traced to vote bank politics The onus of illegal encroachments on the state land, including forests, by nomadic Gujjars lies with the successive governments which exploited them for their vote bank. Insensitivity on the part of the governments can be gauged from the fact that Central laws available to nomadic tribes in other parts of the country are not implemented in J&K, leading to illegal encroachments by Gujjars at the behest of political parties. In the backdrop of the Sarore incident in which a youth, Yaqoob…
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