A day after the Cabinet Deputy Committee on reservation, a day after the Jammu and Kashmir cabinet made its report, the opposition has targeted the ruling national conference to “delay” the document.
Government sources told The Indian Express The report on Wednesday was sent to the Law Department for review.
The Lieutenant Governor-headed UT administration introduced in April last year, amending the UT’s Reservation Policy Rule 4 of the 2005 J&K Reservation Act, which increased the category reserved for reserved category for reserved category in the state from 43 percent to 67 percent, with 3 percent horizontal reservation with 3 percent of the reservation with pre-service. This means that only 33 percent was left for the general category of candidates – a change that has been opposed by various political parties as well as students.
‘Open merit’ or general category student groups have been demanding rationalization of this reservation for more than a year. The protests inspired Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s government to announce a sub -committee to look into the issue.
PDP leader Wahid Para said on Thursday that the Jammu and Kashmir government had promised to solve the issue of reservation through the report of the sub -committee.
Para said, “This deadline has passed, causing thousands of students to break and displaced, their confidence in the system was shattered and their futures were caught.”
The delay in addressing the concerns of the protesting students “refusal to deny justice,” Para said: “These students have already tolerated violence, lockdown and lost opportunities. Now, as they want fair representation and rational reservation, the government is pushing them on margins”.
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The Pulwama MLA said that the ruling National Conference The government has the power to “strike” the policy imposed by the BJP with a single administrative order, “but the party that promised to reverse the BJP’s loss is now entangled in continuing it.”
Meanwhile, Sajad Lone, president of the People’s Conference, on Thursday accused the government of being “clules” on reservation and said that he had “no intention of doing anything.”
“This draft proposal is coming. For the best of my knowledge, anything sent to the cabinet should be sent by the Law Department. This is not the second way. You cannot send anything to the cabinet that is outside the domain of the law. It looks like another round of time-to-time strategy,” Lone said. “
The protests were among the first challenges faced by the elected government in Jammu and Kashmir. Chief Minister Omar Abdullah met in December 2024 with students protesting outside their residence.
In April, the government-appointed cabinet sub-committee began discussions with student groups and in the first week of June, the minister belonging to Saasena Itu announced that the sub-committee compiled its report and it would be presented before the UT cabinet. However, after the cabinet met on Thursday, the findings of the report were not made public and sent to the Law Department for review.
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The reservation policy has also been challenged in the High Court of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh.
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