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Opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) connected Friday (October 17, 2025) decried the Omar Abdullah government’s apt determination to revise the Resident of Backward Area (RBA) category, saying “it volition dilute Kashmiri practice nether the guise of administrative rationalisation.”
“The precocious approved preservation matrix is simply a governmental task aimed astatine diluting Kashmiri practice nether the guise of administrative rationalisation. Kashmiris gave Omar Abdullah a historical mandate to support their rights — yet helium stands with the astir anti-Kashmiri determination successful decades,” PDP person and MLA Waheed-ur-Rehman Parra said.
Mr. Parra’s remarks came amid the reports that the Cabinet Sub-Committee, constituted to look into the ‘skewed’ reservation, was doing distant with the RBA category, which presently has a 10 percent preservation for radical surviving successful far-off areas of J&K. In J&K, the quota for reserved categories roseate to implicit 60% and the unfastened class was reduced to little than 40%, aft the Centre during the Lieutenant Governor’s regularisation accrued the preservation quota of Scheduled Tribes by 20% by including Paharis and accrued the Other Backward Classes quota to 8%.
Mr. Parra said the J&K government’s determination to change the preservation argumentation was an enactment of governmental manipulation. “It straight undermines the halfway principles of determination equilibrium and just representation. The caller preservation matrix is simply a governmental task to dilute Kashmiri representation. We question the contiguous merchandise of the sub-cabinet committee report,” Mr. Parra said.
He said the precise ngo Sheikh Abdullah, laminitis of the ruling National Conference (NC), started for Kashmiri empowerment “was present being reversed by his ain enactment to support an illegal, BJP-driven preservation policy.”
Meanwhile, J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has said the Cabinet Sub-Committee, headed by Education Minister Sakina Itoo, has completed its enactment connected preservation changes and the record was present being routed for last approval.
“The Cabinet approved that report. Now the memo is being prepared and, done circulation, we volition o.k. it and nonstop it to the L-G sahib. That was besides a committedness made to our people,” Mr. Abdullah said.
On land rights bills successful the Assembly, Mr. Abdullah said, “If immoderate Bill comes earlier the House which benefits the radical of Jammu and Kashmir, my authorities volition not make obstacles successful its passage.”
“A Bill had already been introduced by his enactment workfellow Tanvir Sadiq, suggesting correction of the Land Grants Act, which was amended aft 2019. Now I don’t cognize whether Mr. Sadiq’s Bill volition beryllium taken up successful the House oregon not. The Bill the PDP has prepared whether it volition be tabled oregon not depends connected the owed procedure,” Mr. Abdullah added.
The PDP has introduced the Jammu and Kashmir Land Rights and Regularisation Bill arsenic a backstage subordinate measure earlier the J&K Assembly to safeguards the onshore rights of locals and halt the ongoing process of eviction of hoteliers from Gulmarg elevation station.
