Srinagar: Coming strongly against the reservation policy in Jammu and Kashmir, Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Conference President and MLA Handwara today said that ‘by these policies, Kashmiri speaking population has been pushed to the wall.’
“The issue of reservations is a reality. We have to acknowledge the big white elephant in the room. The Kashmiri speaking population has been pushed into a corner,” Lone posted on X.
In his post he said that while affirmative action is welcome, it can’t be done completely at the cost of the Kashmiris.
“There has to be a trade off. The Kashmiri speaking population has been especially at the receiving end for the last three decades. They are the ones highest in terms of PSAs slapped, killed, injured, jailed, denied police verification and now comes the reservation. And the present union government and also the past union governments have been at the forefront in disempowering and marginalising the Kashmiri community, in the name of national interest,” Lone posted.
Hitting hard at the authorities, Lone wrote on the X that they (the government) see the Kashmiris as enemies. And want to make them socially and economically subservient to other communities, through a cruel system of reservations.
“This is the sad reality,” he concluded.
