Srinagar, March 15 -- President of Peoples Conference and legislator Sajad Lone on Saturday said the whole reservation concept is rigged against the Kashmiri speaking population and against Scheduled Tribe (ST) or Economically Weaker Sections (EWS), living in Kashmir.

In a post on X, Lone said that he had posed some questions pertaining to reservations in Assembly which were mostly focused on regional disparities across all categories.

While summarizing the government data, Lone said from March 2023, the government issued 67,112 Scheduled Caste (SC) certificates in Jammu, while none was issued in Kashmir during this period.

Similarly, in the Scheduled Tribe (ST) category, Jammu accounted for 85.3% (4,59,493 certificates), whereas Kashm...