By IANS,
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ali Mohammad Sagar Saturday told the state assembly that a bill banning inter-district recruitment in the state will be introduced Monday.
“It (bill) has become necessary in view of the concern voiced by legislators and also to protect the rights of youth,” he said.
Earlier in the day, main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and two of the ruling National Conference (NC) legislators staged a sit-in and later walked out of the assembly demanding introduction of a bill on the issue.
NC and PDP legislators, mostly from the Kashmir Valley, have been demanding the introduction of the bill by holding protests in the assembly since Wednesday.
Legislators from the Jammu region, especially those of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party and the Jammu State Morcha are opposed to such a move.
PDP and NC legislators Saturday also objected to the reservation of eight per cent jobs in the Kashmir Valley for the Scheduled Castes (SC) candidates. They said the reservation for these candidates, when the community had no presence in the Valley, denied jobs to the local candidates.
“We will not allow our youths to suffer because of the reservation of jobs for the outsiders…The district posts should be filled by candidates from the district concerned only,” NC legislator Kafil-ur-Rehman said before joining a sit-in in the well of the house.
He was joined by another NC legislator, Saif-ullah Mir, while all the PDP legislators shouted slogans, demanding a ban on inter-district recruitment.
Speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone did not order the eviction of the legislators as he had done two days ago when Independent legislator Abdul Rashid and PDP’s Abdul Haq Khan staged a sit-in in the well of the house.
“You hold your protest, I am not going to ask marshals to evict you,” he said.
After the protest, the aggrieved legislators walked out of the house.