A post claiming to list all the actions taken by the Home Minister in Kashmir in the last 10 days is going viral on social media.
The posts list out 18 points, which include claims regarding citizenship in Kashmir, control over Hindu temples, the Waqf Board and illegal land encroachment in Kashmir.
(Archives of more claims can be seen here and here.)
Are the claims true?: No, we found out that the viral claim has made several misleading or false statements.
How did we find out?: We went through official reports and records to check the validity of each claim.
Let us take a look at the claims made in the viral post.
The first point claims that five lakh Hindu and Sikh families have been granted citizenship of Kashmir.
There have been no reports that the Home Minister has granted citizenship to five lakh citizens of the region.
After the revocation of special status under Article 370, the new domicile rules allowed certain categories of people to apply for a domicile certificate, which gives them the right to government jobs and to own property in the Union Territory, and is not the same as granting citizenship.
Another point claims that all powers of Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti have been withdrawn, is misleading.
When Article 370 was abrogated, former chief ministers Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti were placed under 'preventive detention' to...
A post claiming to list all the actions taken by the Home Minister in Kashmir in the last 10 days is going viral on social media. The posts list out 18 points, which include claims regarding citiz...