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Differences wrong the ruling National Conference (NC) came to the fore again connected Friday arsenic Member of Parliament Aga Syed Ruhullah and elder enactment person and Minister Sakina Itoo took divergent positions connected the preservation contented successful Jammu and Kashmir.
Mr. Ruhullah warned of a thoroughfare protestation successful the coming days, saying helium would basal with unfastened merit aspirants if their concerns were not addressed. In a station connected societal media level X, the MP said helium would beryllium successful protestation astatine the aforesaid determination wherever helium had demonstrated past year, extracurricular the Chief Minister’s office, to property for action.
“I person neither forgotten nor near the students alone. I impulse the authorities erstwhile again to speech to the students and apprise them of the measures and decisions taken to resoluteness this issue. If that does not hap till Saturday, I volition not permission our younker and students helpless,” Mr. Ruhullah said.
Reacting to his remarks, J&K Minister Sakina Itoo said, “Some radical are misleading the younker and students connected the preservation contented and unnecessarily calling shots connected the government.”
Ms. Itoo added that the authorities had already completed its relation successful the substance and that the Council of Ministers had approved changes related to preservation and forwarded them to the Lieutenant Governor for approval. “If these fewer radical request to protest, they should protestation earlier the L-G’s bureau alternatively than indulge successful unnecessary disapproval of the government. Ironically, they consciousness it is inconvenient to protestation earlier the L-G’s office,” she said.
After assuming bureau successful October 2024, the Chief Minister constituted a three-member Cabinet subcommittee to rationalise the unfastened class quota to 50%. The connection has since been forwarded to the Lieutenant Governor.
In March past year, the Lieutenant Governor approved an further 10% preservation for recently included tribes, including Paharis, nether the Scheduled Tribes category, and added 15 communities to the Other Backward Classes list. This led to a simplification successful the stock of unfastened merit seats and triggered wide protests by wide class aspirants.
At present, 20% of seats are reserved for Scheduled Tribes, 8% for Scheduled Castes, 10% for Reserved Backward Areas, 8% for Other Backward Classes, 4% nether the Local Area Candidates and Integrated Border category, 10% for Economically Weaker Sections, and 10% nether the Children of Defence Personnel, sports and persons with disabilities categories.
