JAMMU/SRINAGAR: Demolition of journalist Arafaz Ahmad Daing’s residence in Jammu by Jammu Growth Authority (JDA) has triggered a political confrontation, with deputy CM Surinder Choudhary demanding to know who ordered the motion and urging LG Manoj Sinha to order an inquiry.Choudhary visited Saturday the demolished construction at Narwal and mentioned neither the elected govt nor CM Omar Abdullah ordered the step. “The JDA vice chairman is posted by the LG, and police concerned additionally report back to the LG. If this motion didn’t occur in your orders, then order an inquiry and droop the officers accountable,” he instructed reporters.The home was levelled Thursday morning by JDA groups accompanied by a big police contingent. Daing mentioned his father constructed the construction 40 years in the past and the household had lived there ever since. His counsel, lawyer Sheikh Shakeel Ahmad, alleged the demolition was “selective focusing on” executed by JDA vice chairman with assist from district authorities.Former J&Okay BJP president Ravinder Raina visited the location Friday and expressed solidarity with the household. He mentioned he spoke to Sinha and claimed the latter instructed him “the LG administration didn’t use bulldozers. So the place did this motion come from? I don’t need to politicise this”.Choudhary accused Raina of mendacity. “Ask him to point out his name data and show he really spoke to the LG,” he mentioned. He praised neighbour Kuldeep Sharma, who provided land to Daing’s household, calling it “a robust instance of the brotherhood that defines J&Okay”.Omar accused Raj Bhavan–posted officers of finishing up “selective demolitions” to allegedly undermine the elected govt. “Growth authorities, income officers — these needs to be our officers. As a substitute, officers are being posted with out consulting us, and so they take dictation from someplace, use bulldozers,” he alleged.Choudhary mentioned Omar “by no means supported actions pushed by revenge”. “If officers acted on their very own with out consulting the LG or the CM, they need to be positioned underneath suspension,” he mentioned, including J&Okay govt backs strikes to retrieve encroached land however insisted motion “should not be selective” and may start with “influential land grabbers, not the poor”.