NEW DELHI: The newly-floated Apni Party in Kashmir has got a fillip with back to back two high-level meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah last week in the Capital. The government, at the highest level, issuing a statement that there will be no demographic changes in J&K has further boosted prospects of the new outfit gaining acceptance at the ground by countering propaganda of separatists and some mainstream parties and in effect, providing an alternative third front.The Centre is working on a comprehensive plan that will be shortly unveiled with regards to the rules and guidelines on who can gain domicile status in the union territory of J&K for purchasing of properties. Barring certain categories of entrepreneurs and industrialists who can generate economic opportunities in J&K, no outsiders will be allowed to purchase properties, according to top sources.“Propaganda machinery of separatists that large number of ex-servicemen and Hindus will be settled in Kashmir with the abrogation of Article 370 and 35A is misplaced. The Centre will protect J&K’s domicile status and also plans to restore statehood very soon,” a senior official monitoring Kashmir situation in the establishment here said.The official also rejected hypothesis that the revocation of Public Safety Act against former chief minister Farooq Abdullah was an “understanding” between the Centre and the National Conference chief to restart the political process in the Valley. Abdullah was detained under PSA in mid-September under law and order category of PSA which is only applicable for six months. If PSA is imposed for security reasons, then the detention is for up to a period of two years, he explained. To keep Abdullah under continued detention in the present case, the government would have had to review the charges and reimpose the PSA, which the Centre felt was not necessary at this point.Similarly, the PSA imposed on former CMs Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti is for a period of six months and it will be purely a political decision if they are to be released early.“There is no understanding with the NC chief to engage him at present or in the future,” the official said, expressing confidence that the leaders of Apni Party, including two dozen ex-MLAs from PDP, NC and Congress, having mass base can effectively counter mainstream parties in the Valley.The new political formation draws its strength from scores of district-level leaders across Kashmir drawn from the three main parties that had ruled the erstwhile state for several decades. Both PDP and NC leadership failed to plug dissent brewing within their outfits since the abrogation of Article 370 that removed special status to J&K and reduced it to union territory with a legislature on August 5 last year.The PMO in a release on Saturday had said that the PM in his interaction with the Apni Party delegation underlined that the government will announce statehood for J&K at an early opportunity. He also assured the J&K leaders that there will be no demographic changes in the union territory.