SRINAGAR: Jammu Kashmir Peoples Conference General Secretary and AJKSA President Imran Reza Ansari on Thursday issued a sharp condemnation of the NC-led government’s proposed reservation restructuring, calling it a targeted attack on vulnerable Kashmiri-speaking groups disguised as reform.
Ansari said the government’s so-called “Thoda Sa Rationalisation” was nothing more than “a polite euphemism for daylight robbery,” alleging that the move sought to undercut marginalised communities while expanding benefits for the Open Merit category. He pointed to reported reductions in quotas, stating that the RBA category had been lowered from 10 percent to 7 percent, and the EWS category cut from 10 percent to 3 percent.
Accusing the administration of deliberately redistributing benefits in favour of the influential, he said the policy effectively took “from the hills and the impoverished” and handed it “to the valleys,” all while presenting the plan as a balanced reform.
He further described the changes as “linguistic gymnastics staging a heist,” arguing that the government was attempting to “rob Peter to pay Paul” and then justify the shift under the pretext of greater equality.
Warning that the decision would deepen existing inequities, Ansari said Kashmiri-speaking communities were already struggling for meaningful representation and were now being “shown the door and told to clap for their own exit.”
Calling the policy socially divisive and politically shortsighted, he said the government was “dividing people of the same language, eroding trust and projecting it as justice.”
Concluding his statement, Ansari labelled the entire exercise “sick” and “pathetic.”
