Srinagar, Sept 16: People’s Conference president and MLA Sajjad Lone has questioned the regional representation in the latest recruitment to the Jammu and Kashmir Administrative Service (JKAS) and J&K Accounts (Gazetted) Service, alleging that candidates from the Kashmir Valley have received a disproportionately low share of the appointments.
In a post on X, Sajjad lone wrote, Out of 55 JKAS and J&K Accounts( Gazetted), officers selected, only 10 are from Kashmir valley. So against a population ratio of 56%, inhabitants of Kashmir have got 18% of the jobs.”
“Incidentally appointment orders were given by CM sahib. Ideally he should have kept away. This is recruitment apartheid. And persecution of the inhabitants of the Kashmir valley. A strategy to disempower and marginalise the inhabitants of Kashmir valley,” he added.
“I have all along maintained that reservations is a Jammu vs Kashmir issue, rooted in ethnically disempowering the inhabitants of valley,” the post reads.
He further added, “And this Kashmir region 56% vs 18% recruitment figure will not be changed if the so called file sent by the elected government to union government is approved. At best it will increase to 19%, against 56% population.”
“I will be raising this issue in the Assembly through appropriate legislative devices. I wish and hope that we together, across party lines are able to highlight the severity of this issue,” he said.
“And call a spade a spade. 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 Kashmir valley,” Sajjad lone said.
