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| BJP a party to 2002 anti-Jammu amendment | | Delimitation issue | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 15: Jammu & Kashmir BJP leadership believes that the people of Jammu province didn't know the circumstances under which the delimitation of assembly constituencies was banned in 2002. It takes them for granted and seeks to create an impression that the then ruling National Conference was responsible for banning the delimitation of assembly constituencies for an indefinite period.
Those who believe that there would be delimitation of constituencies in 2016 are not aware of the implications of the amendment to the Jammu & Kashmir Constitution and Jammu & Kashmir Representation of People's Act. The amendment had clearly said that there could be delimitation of the constituencies after census exercise after 2016 was over. In other words, the amendment said there could be delimitation of the constituencies only after the 2031 census exercise, which means not before 2035 and that too subject to the condition that the government of the time would amend the rules to pave way for delimitation of the constituencies. The point is that the people of Jammu have to wait for at least twenty more years.
The BJP spokesperson Virendra Gupta on Wednesday asked the government to dispense justice to Jammu by giving it due representation in the assembly and accused the National Conference of banning delimitation of constituencies. The truth is that it was not only the National Conference, all the Kashmir-based lawmakers and all the law-makers of the Congress had voted for the anti-Jammu, anti-democratic and anti-constitutional amendment but all the 8 BJP lawmakers had also voted for the amendment - a fact which the Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister PK Dhumal acknowledged in Jammu during the election campaign in 2008. Addressing an election meeting in Jammu, Dhumal said that the BJP inadvertently committed a mistake by voting for the amendment.
Virendra Gupta's statement that the state government should do justice to the people of Jammu province by starting a process leading to the delimitation of constituencies is intriguing. Which government he was asking to do the needful? Is the BJP not in government? The BJP is the most crucial part of the government and if it so likes, it can make its coalition partner fall in line and meet the Jammu's age-old demand. Even more intriguing was the assertion of BJP spokesperson that the PDP-BJP agenda of alliance did talk about delimitation of the assembly constituencies. It appears he had not read it. Had he read it or understood it, he would not have become a laughing stock.
The agenda of alliance in this regard reads: "Constitute a delimitation commission for the delimiting of Legislative Assembly Constituencies as required by law".
And what is the law? The existing law is that assembly constituencies could not be delimited before 2035 and there is no certainty that it would happen even after 2035. |
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