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A time aft National Conference (NC) president Dr. Farooq Abdullah defended the crackdown connected unfastened merit candidates’ sit-in and governmental leaders, NC person and legislator Tanvir Sadiq connected Monday (December 29, 2025) said the students should person been allowed to clasp a protestation implicit the preservation issue.
“Students should person been allowed to peacefully protest. If they tin protestation extracurricular the Chief Minister’s residence, wherefore can’t they beryllium allowed to protestation elsewhere?” Mr. Sadiq said.
Mr. Sadiq’s connection came arsenic a U-turn connected the basal taken by Dr. Abdullah, who questioned the volition of the leaders who wanted to articulation protests successful Srinagar connected Sunday.
The unfastened merit students successful Kashmir cancelled their protestation successful Srinagar implicit the rationalisation of preservation quota to 50% for unfastened merit students successful J&K. However, respective leaders were placed nether location apprehension including NC rebel Member of Parliament (MP) Aga Syed Ruhullah.
Meanwhile, NC Rajya Sabha subordinate Chaudhary Muhammad Ramzan played down the increasing differences wrong the NC, particularly betwixt CM Omar Abdullah and MP Ruhullah.
“Internal statement should not beryllium seen arsenic disloyalty. Aga and the CM person antithetic approaches to solving issues. This quality successful method does not mean helium (Aga) is against the NC. If helium were against the party, helium would person resigned,” Mr. Ramzan said.
He said a Cabinet Sub-Committee already submitted its study to the Lok Bhavan nether Supreme Court guidelines. “Once signed, a caller preservation argumentation volition beryllium implemented,” helium added.
Under the existent policy, 20% seats are reserved for STs, 8% for Scheduled Castes (SCs), 10% for Reserved Backward Areas (RBAs), 8% for OBCs, 4% nether the Local Area Candidates/ Integrated Borders category, 10% Economically Weaker Section (EWS) and 10% successful the Children of Defence Personnel/ Sports/CDP/PWD quota. Earlier, J&K had lone 10% reservation for STs but was changed by the L-G medication past year.
