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Early Times Report
Jammu, Feb 23: When National Conference leadership is planning to gain electoral mileage from the expected nod from the centre to its demand for partial withdrawal of the AFSPA, the BJP and the Panthers Party plan to rake up the issue of fresh delimitation commission during the electioneering for the Lok Sabha and the Assembly elections. Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, has again sought Rahul Gandhi's intervention so that the NC's main demand for the partial withdrawal of the AFSPA could be conceded by the Government of India before the schedule for the Lok Sabha election was announced so that the NC leadership could use it to its advantage during the election campaign, especially in the Kashmir valley.
Since the Panthers Party and the BJP, besides the Jammu State Morcha, are opposed to the revocation of the AFSPA in view of some reports indicating that militancy related activities may witness increase during the Lok Sabha and the Assembly elections, these two parties have decided to rake up the demand for the setting fresh delimitation commission for ending regional discrimination. According to the Chief of the Panthers Party, Harsh Dev Singh, disparity in the number of Assembly seats between the Kashmir valley and the Jammu region has been the root cause for the continued discrimination of the Jammu region and its people.He said that once the Government set up a fresh delimitation commission for the purpose of restoring parity in the Assembly segments between the two regions chances for ending regional discrimination could brighten. |
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