Overview
- PDP MLA Wahid-ur-Rehman Para denounced the Centre’s SASCI program as a debt trap that could mortgage Jammu and Kashmir’s land and resources, even as the scheme is described as offering 50-year interest-free capital loans.
- He demanded a House committee to examine the loan’s long-term fiscal and legal implications and proposed Tariq Hameed Karra to lead the review.
- BJP legislators walked out alleging they were denied time to speak on the budget, and the chair adjourned the session 30 minutes early due to disorder.
- Deputy Chief Minister Surinder Choudhary rejected claims that public assets were being mortgaged and said the opposition was politicising a development assistance framework.
- Para also questioned budget execution, citing roughly 12% spending and many projects with zero outlay, and linked fiscal choices to youth distress, substance abuse, and school closures.