Earlier last month, BJP leader Sunil Sharma’s comments called the victims of the killings of July 1931 as “traitors” in Srinagar and fielded a fracture inside the assembly. In 1931, Kashmir exploded a civil rebellion against the Dogra Rajshahi, which ruled Jammu and Kashmir until 1947 over the lack of democratic character and inappropriate policies.
Around 22 Kashmiri Muslim protesters died during a conflict with Dogra forces on 13 July that year. The day was remembered as the day of martyrs and was seen with great pomp and ceremony in Kashmir, until the practice was abolished by the central government in 2019. Since the heritage of the day of the martyrs was more tied to the founding members of the NC, compared to any other political formation in Kashmir, it was natural that Omar would become a matter of public resentment in the valley for his alleged pilgrimage not to take the head of the BJP.
Under various categories, beneficiaries – educated castes (SCS), Scheduled Tribes (STS), Economically weaker sections (EWS), actual line of control (LAC), and International Border (IB) – Focus in Jammu – 100 percent, 85.3 percent, 92.3 percent, 94.3 percent and 551 candidates. In Stark Contrast, Kashmir recorded zero, 14.7 percent, 7.7 percent, 5.7 percent and zero figures.
It has abandoned millions of Kashmiri youth and has been fed by the LG administration in the popular Angest on last year’s decision, so that the quota of categories reserved for applicants filed under the open-merit label can be carried forward, which forms the majority (69 percent) of J&K population.
This has disillusioned hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri youth, the LG administration has further enhanced public resentment on last year’s decision to expand reservation-at the expense of open-open applicants who build 69 percent of the population of Jammu and Kashmir.
