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JAMMU: Bharatiya Janata Party is seriously concerned over consistent efforts of using the issue of reservations to divide Jammu Kashmir on the basis of region, religion and language. BJP condemns this opportunistic politics of Kashmir centric parties.
This was stated by Girdhari Lal Raina, former MLC and party spokesperson. Pained by the falsehood being spread over reservations, GL Raina said that it is a universally recognized and constitutionally accepted concept of affirmative action by the national governments to help marginalized and underprivileged sections of the society.
Terming allegations of linguistic bias against âKashmiri speakingâ people as nothing more than a figment of imagination, GL Raina asked senior politicians like Sajjad Lone to desist from creating divisions on the basis of language and region. Such politics will ruin and destroy Jammu Kashmir.
Dubbing figures quoted in assembly as half-truth, misleading and deceptive, GLRaina asked the government to reveal the number of people who applied for issuance of certificates in both regions and also explain reasons, if any, for denying certificates for claiming reservation benefits to eligible candidates from Kashmir Division.
GL Raina laughed off the abrupt discovery of the âmeritâ by Kashmir centric politicians and called sudden love for Kashmiri Pandit community as a politically motivated move to justify illogical & unconstitutional stand against reservations. Had they really been concerned over problems faced by the Kashmiri Pandit community they wouldnât have remained silent all these decades. When Kashmiri Pandits individually and collectively raised their voice for merit-based selection in professional institutions and jobs they were ridiculed and physically assaulted. Even the Supreme Court directions were ignored, he added.
Asserting that there was no major change in reservation numbers post 2019, BJP spokesperson said only rationalization was done lately, for example by reducing RBA quota from 20 per cent to 10 per cent and that was provided to ST2. He also asked the public to make distinction between horizontal and vertical reservations. Reservations available under sports, Defence/police personnel and Persons with Disabilities and under economically weaker sections (EWS) are not the same as those available to SCs, STS and OBCs, Ex MLC added further.
The BJP leader concluded by stating that in spite of all this, if there still are issues and grievances there is a mechanism in democracy to address such grievances. Those platforms and mechanisms must be used to address issues democratically without resorting to divisive politics.
