SRINAGAR: J&K CM Omar Abdullah 's National Conference and BJP teamed up in the assembly for the first time Tuesday to vote out PDP 's proposed "anti-bulldozer bill" that seeks to grant ownership rights to locals occupying illegal properties on state-owned land for over 20 years. Omar, already facing allegations about last Friday's Rajya Sabha election being "a fixed match" after BJP won one of the four seats at stake, received a rare shout-out from the saffron party later for rejecting PDP's land bill "in national interest". "How can this bill be justified when it seeks to legitimise illegal constructions on state land?" Omar said in the House before speaker Abdul Rahim Rather put the bill to vote. "If it is passed, it would mean that anyone who builds a house on state land tomo

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