Srinagar, March 15 -- J&K Peoples Conference president and Handwara MLA Sajad Lone on Saturday said that the recently published JKAS statistical results have validated his party's position on reservations in near-entirety, reaffirming arguments he had made on the floor of the assembly and in earlier data presentations on social media.

"The JKAS statistically results endorse almost every single word that I uttered on behalf of my party, in the Assembly," Lone said. "The statistical projections almost overlap."

Lone said the single biggest problem in reservations still remains in not understanding the structural issues but a pattern of regional inequity hardwired into existing policy. "It is a problem of regional imbalance, perpetuated by...