Srinagar, March 13 -- Speaking in the Assembly, Lone, who represents Handwara segment, said that ethnic Kashmiri-speaking population is being pushed to the wall.

"We have seen very less number of Kashmiris are qualifying competitive examinations. It is not that they are incompetent but they are being crowded out of the competitive space by virtue of reservations," he said, citing figures of KAS selection in the past three years.

He said efforts are being made to establish social supremacy over Kashmiris through disempowerment.

"How many Kashmiris you will find in the civil secretariat twenty years down the line if this trend persists," he said, as per news agency KNO.

He said the current reservation policy would have serious ramificat...