JAMMU: PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday wrote to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, seeking his support for three private member bills to be tabled by legislators from her party in the upcoming Budget Session of the assembly.
The bills forwarded by Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) MLAs seek regularisation and recognition of property rights of residents on public land; special provisions for regularisation of ad hoc, daily wagers, need-based and other temporary workers; and prohibition of alcohol in the Union Territory.
Mehbooba wrote identical letters to Leader of Opposition Sunil Sharma of the BJP, Congress state chief Tariq Hameed Karra, CPI(M) leader MY Tarigami and People’s Conference chairman Sajjad Gani Lone, a PDP leader said