Tag: Delimitation Commission

  • J&Okay: NC, Other folks’s Convention take pleasure in blame recreation over delimitation panel file

    Via PTI

    SRINAGAR: The Nationwide Convention on Thursday mentioned it was once finding out the affect of the Delimitation Fee file on particular person meeting segments in Jammu and Kashmir however claimed the BJP and its proxies will likely be punished through the electorate each time elections are held within the union territory.

    Alternatively, the Other folks’s Convention led through Sajad Gani Lone, which is observed as an best friend of the BJP, accused the Nationwide Convention of offering sanctity to the delimitation workout after its MPs participated within the deliberations of the fee.

    Redrawing the electoral map of Jammu and Kashmir, a three-member Delimitation Fee on Thursday earmarked 47 meeting seats for Kashmir department and 43 for Jammu in its ultimate order submitted only a day ahead of its two-year tenure was once to finish.

    A gazette notification was once issued after the panel, headed through retired Ideally suited Courtroom pass judgement on Ranjana Prakash Desai, signed the overall order giving Jammu six further seats and yet one more to Kashmir.

    “We’ve got observed the overall suggestions of the Delimitation Fee. We’re finding out the results of those suggestions for particular person meeting constituencies. No quantity of gerrymandering will exchange the bottom fact which is that each time elections are held the voter will punish the BJP & its proxies for what they have got carried out to J&Okay during the last 4 years,” the Nationwide Convention tweeted.

    Alternatively, the Other folks’s Convention mentioned the delimitation file is a repeat of the previous and accused the NC of offering sanctity to the delimitation workout.

    “Similar conventional entities are calling the pictures in the back of the scenes. Kashmir has been discriminated in opposition to as previously. No exchange. Simplest level of disempowerment is larger,” the birthday party mentioned in a observation posted on Twitter.

    Over the past six many years, Kashmir’s percentage of meeting seats within the J-Okay meeting greater from 43 to 47, whilst Jammu’s percentage rose from 30 to 43. Who’s accountable for systematic disempowerment of Kashmiris from 1947, it requested.

    “Those that aided and abetted within the adventure from Jammu’s 30 to 37 are those who aided and abetted from 37 to 43. Want Kashmiri events had stayed away and no longer diluted the stigma related to a people-less procedure. Hope Kashmiris will take into account the events who related themselves with delimitation procedure which was once in crucial a device for disempowerment will all the time be in wonderment. How may a birthday party which related itself with the delimitation procedure be so audacious. They if truth be told had the nerve of filing one memorandum in Kashmir and a separate memorandum in Jammu. Sarcastically the memorandums have been contradictory,” the Other folks’s Convention mentioned “The Jammu one perceived to were copy-pasted from the Hindutva brigade,” it added.

    The birthday party mentioned it is going to opt for an RTI and search the video recordings of the conferences.

    “How those that began beating their chests out of doors the assembly halls have been bending their again backwards to assuage and please the participants of the delimitation fee. Monetary scams indulged in – all through the previous couple of many years can’t be squared off through covertly facilitating disempowerment of the Kashmiris. How silly we have been. We could not see in the course of the recreation plan. The raids. The EDs. It was once all a recreation. A trade-off. They once more bartered away the Kashmiris. The barterers are the similar. When will this transformation,” it mentioned.

    The birthday party mentioned it does no longer declare that the end result of the workout would were any other if there was once no participation of the Nationwide Convention. “However the procedure would no longer benefit from the sanctity that they revel in now.”

  • J&Ok delimitation panel stocks revised draft record with affiliate participants

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The Delimitation Fee, mandated to redraw meeting constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir, on Friday circulated a revised draft report back to its affiliate participants incorporating some adjustments prompt by means of them.

    5 Lok Sabha participants from Jammu and Kashmir — Farooq Abdullah, Mohammad Akbar Lone and Hasnain Masoodi of the Nationwide Convention and Jugal Kishore Sharma and Jitendra Singh of the BJP — are the panel’s affiliate participants.

    That they had prompt quite a lot of adjustments to the sooner draft record of the panel. The panel had met on Thursday and permitted lots of the ideas after due attention, resources stated.

    They stated the remodeled draft incorporating the ideas used to be circulated to the 5 affiliate participants on Friday.

    Of their objections and recommendations, the participants had prompt the panel to “redraw” some meeting seats. Their ideas referring to Habba Kadal seat in Srinagar and Suchetgarh seat in Jammu had been permitted.

    The fee has additionally agreed to not rename Inderwal meeting seat, resources stated.

    The Delimitation Fee on Jammu and Kashmir is headed by means of former Ultimate Courtroom pass judgement on Ranjana Prakash Desai, with Leader Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra and the State Election Commissioner of Jammu and Kashmir being its ex-officio participants.

    The affiliate participants had been requested to answer the newest draft in per week’s time.

    Later, the fee will put the draft in public area to get ideas from other people. It used to be just lately given a two-month extension until Might 6 to finish its activity.

  • Delimitation panel on J&Ok will get two months extension

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The time period of the Delimitation Fee, mandated to redraw the meeting constituencies of Jammu and Kashmir, has been prolonged by means of two months to finish its process.

    The panel’s time period was once to finish on March 6, however in line with a Legislation Ministry notification issued on Monday, it’s been prolonged by means of two months — until Might 6 this 12 months.

    The panel wanted extra time to able its ultimate file, resources conscious about the explanations for the extension mentioned. Shaped in March 2020, the panel was once granted a one-year extension remaining 12 months.

    Headed by means of former Ultimate Court docket pass judgement on Ranjana Prakash Desai, it has Leader Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra and the state election commissioner of Jammu and Kashmir as its ex-officio individuals.

    In its draft file shared with its 5 related individuals — all Lok Sabha individuals from Jammu and Kashmir — the delimitation panel has proposed an overhaul of meeting and Lok Sabha constituencies within the Union territory.

    Jammu and Kashmir at the moment has no legislative meeting. This is a union territory with a provision for a legislature.

    The Fee has requested the affiliate individuals to offer their inputs and objections to the draft within the coming days. Then they’d be requested whether or not their objections, if any, must be revealed earlier than the following draft is put out within the public area.

    As soon as folks proportion their inputs and objections, the panel would get started running at the ultimate file, the resources defined. Delimitation is the method of changing limits or limitations of territorial constituencies in a state or nation.