SRINAGAR: Peoples Conference president Sajad Gani Lone on Monday said that the unfair reservation policy is a post-dated cheque for disaster, asserting that Kashmiris are being pushed to the wall.
Speaking in the Assembly, Lone, who represents the Handwara segment, stated that the ethnic Kashmiri-speaking population is facing marginalisation.
“We have seen very few Kashmiris qualifying in competitive examinations. It is not that they are incompetent, but they are being crowded out of the competitive space by virtue of reservations,” he said, citing figures from KAS selections over the past three years.
He said efforts are being made to establish social supremacy over Kashmiris through disempowerment.
“How many Kashmiris will you find in the civil secretariat twenty years down the line if this trend persists?” he asked, as per news agency Kashmir News Observer (KNO).
Lone warned that the current reservation policy would have serious ramifications. “This is a post-dated cheque for disaster. We have just come out of conflict after 30 years. That script was written by our enemies, and now this script is being written by us,” he said, adding that tribals in Kashmir are also unable to compete for reservations due to their level of backwardness.
He urged the current government to correct what he termed an unfair reservation policy. (KNO)
