SRINAGAR: Sajad Lone, president of the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Conference and MLA from Handwara, on Saturday said the recently published results of the Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service (JKAS) examination have validated his party’s position on the reservations issue in Jammu and Kashmir.
In a statement, Lone said the statistical outcome of the JKAS results supported the arguments he had earlier presented on the floor of the Assembly as well as in data shared on social media. “The JKAS statistical results endorse almost every single word that I uttered on behalf of my party in the Assembly,” he said, adding that the figures closely matched the projections he had previously highlighted.
Lone reiterated that the reservations debate in the Union Territory is rooted in structural issues rather than procedural shortcomings. According to him, the principal concern remains regional imbalance embedded within the existing reservation framework.
He said a credible resolution to the reservations issue would require three key elements — political will, evidence-based policymaking and intellectual honesty in acknowledging structural disparities. Lone stressed that decisions on such matters should be guided by rigorous research and data rather than speculation.
The Peoples Conference leader also urged the government to recognise what he described as inherent regional imbalances in the current policy structure and address them through transparent and data-driven reforms.
