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| After delimitation, Jammu may get 50 seats: Experts | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, June 6: "If the new Delimitation Commission is appointed and delimitation of assembly constituencies done as per the laid down criteria across the state, it will totally change in the political landscape," say experts.
The last Delimitation happened in the state in 1995 and the 2002 amendment allowed the state government to freeze the Delimitation process up to 2035, which enabled the status quo of more seats from the Kashmir region. Currently in the total 87 elected members Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, the Kashmir region has 46 seats and the Jammu region has only 37 seats. The problem here is that the seats in Jammu region have much large number of voters and in the Kashmir region much fewer voters compared to Jammu region.
"As the State is under President's Rule, with Governor's report and Presidential ascent, Centre can bring a new Delimitation Commission and implement the same parameters in the entire state, which would result in majority seats from the Jammu region. Currently, different parameters were used in Jammu and Kashmir, which benefitted the Kashmir region with 46 seats out of a total 87 elected MLAs. Apart from the voter, a number of parameters, the area-wise parameter was also different for the Kashmir region when the last Delimitation process was undertaken," say the Jammu and Kashmir-watchers.
"In 2002, when in an ultra-vires action, the Farooq Abdullah Government, which was an ally of the Vajpayee Government, came out with an amendment to freeze the Delimitation. It is good that appeasing the Kashmir's parties like National Conference and PDP has been stopped by the BJP-led Government at the Centre," say Jammu and Kashmir experts.
They have further asserted, and rightly: "The maximum number of voters in the Assembly segments in the Kashmir region is never more than 80,000 voters. There are certain Assembly segments like Gurez in the Kashmir valley that has only around 25000 voters. Meanwhile, all Assembly segments in Jammu region have more than 93,000 voters each and a majority of the seats have more than 1.25 lakh voters. In a nutshell, Jammu region has 37 seats with around 38 lakh voters and Kashmir region has 46 seats with more than 40 lakh voters including more than 1.2 lakh Kashmiri Hindu votes, who were driven out from the Valley three decades ago when the Jehadis started terrorism. Look at the fraud - even after forcing out the Kashmiri Hindus Kashmir region is keeping their names in the voters' list to show inflated figures!"
"Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency has 12,94,560 voters and Anantnag constituency 13,97,272 voters. Baramulla Lok Sabha constituency in the Kashmir region has 13,17,738 voters. Meanwhile, the number of voters in Jammu-Poonch and Kathua-Udhampur Lok Constituencies is 20,47,299 and 16,85,779, respectively. If the new Delimitation Commission implements, same parameters across the state, the number of seats would raise up to around 50 seats in the Jammu".
Will the new Government of Narendra Modi take a lead to start the new Delimitation process in the Jammu and Kashmir to bring justice in the representation of people in the State, which is still facing the follies of first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru? One has to wait for some days to know if the Modi Government really meant business. |
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