Kashmirpen August 18,2017
Business leaders, academics, writers, authors, columnists. industrialists retired civil servants, technocrats and members of civil society observed silent sit at Pratap Park, Residency Road on 17-08-2017 in against moves for abrogation of 35 A of Indian constitution safeguarding the 1927 State Subjects law. The move is aimed at changing population ratio, opening floodgates for people from outside the state to own land and property in the state, shrink employment opportunities to natives in the state- the move has far reaching dangerous consequences for people across, regional and religious divide , the abrogation will hit as adversely to people of Jammu, as it will hit of Kashmir and Ladakh— OF COURSE IT WILL HIT WITH SAME BANG FENCE SITTERS AND THOSE IN CORRIDORS OF POWER, said one among the protesters . Abdul Majid Zargar Dr-Abdul Ahad Arif Kamal Sheikh Manzoor Ahmed Vinod Sharma Victoria Schofield Indu Kilam Peerzada Abdal Mahjoor Hameedah Nayeem Seema Hakhu Kachru Intach Kashmir Christopher Snedden Jalal Ud Din Shah Ghulam Rasool Sufi Gh Qadir Wani Gh Qadir Wani Er Saifuddin Shangloo Muhammad Kundangar Nazir Ahmed Shawl Farooq Lone Shoukat Farooqi Siddiq Wahid Radhu Maqsood Shahdad Parvaiz Maqbool Fazili Javid Iqbal Syed Shakeel Qalander Mubeen Ahmed Shah Anwar Ashai Nusrat Andrabi Zafar Choudhary Anuradha Bhasin Carin Jodha Fischer and others were present in the protest .