Ahead of the upcoming session of the Legislative Assembly, Peoples Conference president Sajad Gani Lone on Thursday lashed out at the government over the latest JKAS and J&K Accounts (Gazetted) appointments, terming the process as \u201crecruitment apartheid\u201d against the Kashmir Valley.<\/p>\n
In a post on X, Lone said that out of 55 JKAS and J&K Accounts (Gazetted) officers selected, only 10 are from the Kashmir Valley. \u201cSo against a population ratio of 56%, inhabitants of Kashmir have got 18% of the jobs,\u201d Lone said.<\/p>\n
He added that the Chief Minister should have kept himself away from distributing appointment orders. \u201cIncidentally, appointment orders were given by CM sahib. Ideally, he should have kept away,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n
Lone alleged that the current reservation framework amounts to recruitment apartheid against the Valley. \u201cIt is persecution of the inhabitants of the Kashmir Valley\u2014a strategy to disempower and marginalise them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He further argued that the cabinet recommendation on reservation would not make much difference. \u201cThis Kashmir region\u2019s 56% vs 18% recruitment figure will not be changed if the so\u2011called file sent by the elected government to the Union government is approved. At best, it will increase to 19%, against 56% population,\u201d Lone said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Peoples Conference chief announced that he will raise the issue in the Assembly through appropriate legislative devices. \u201cI wish and hope that we together, across party lines, are able to highlight the severity of this issue. And call a spade a spade \u2014 which would mean saying it explicitly and unambiguously that the present reservation system in place is a methodology to disempower and relegate to the margins the inhabitants of the Kashmir Valley,\u201d he said. (KNO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ahead of the upcoming session of the Legislative Assembly, Peoples Conference president Sajad Gani Lone on Thursday lashed out at the government over the latest JKAS and J&K Accounts (Gazetted) appointments, terming the process as \u201crecruitment apartheid\u201d against the Kashmir Valley. In a post on X, Lone said that out of 55 JKAS and J&K […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6470","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jammu-kashmir"},"yoast_head":"\n