NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed budgetary proposals for J&K and Ladakh with the government stressing that the newly created UTs are now “open for tourists and shut for terrorists” after nullification of Article 370 , an issue which drew wider attention of members from both treasury and opposition parties during the over six-hour debate.While the opposition questioned the government over restrictions imposed in J&K after August 5 last year and demanded release of detained political functionaries, the government slammed Congress for doing nothing for rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits.Congress even faced criticism from Shiv Sena , its ally in Maharashtra, which accused it of remaining silent when jawans were killed by terrorists and the national Tricolour was burnt in the erstwhile state of J&K.Shiv Sena member Arvind Sawant expressed gratitude to PM Narendra Modi for taking the bold step of withdrawing special status to J&K and said his party had always been in support of this move.Wondering why the opposition never expressed pain and anguish over deaths of over 40,000 people in J&K, Sawant said, “Why didn’t they express pain when ‘jawans’ were killed? ...We will together say ‘ Bharat Mata Ki Jai ’. We don’t require the ruling party’s permission.”Replying to the debate, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said corruption has ended and things have become more transparent in J&K post abrogation of Article 370.Denying the opposition charges that J&K has suffered a lot in the past seven months, she said many positive developments have taken place, including a rise in exports.Minister of state for home G Kishan Reddy said misinformation was being spread that J&K has been converted into an “open jail”. He said, “It’s not an open jail. It is open for tourists. It is shut for terrorists.”Union minister Jitendra Singh said there has not been a more peaceful eight-month period there than the one since August last year.