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PDP President Mehbooba Mufti on Wednesday said that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had “betrayed not only the PDP but also the poor people of Jammu and Kashmir” by rejecting a proposal aimed at protecting residential structures of low-income families built on state land decades ago.

Speaking to reporters, Mehbooba said the issue was not about the market value of land but about people’s homes. “If a poor family, having no other means, built a small house 20 or 25 years ago on a few marlas of grazing land, that was the matter we raised,” she said. “We were not talking about new encroachments or current land use, but about old settlements that go back two or three decades.”

She said that while her party had sought to protect such families, the move was opposed by Omar Abdullah.

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