The Election Commission on Tuesday held the first meeting to discuss delimitation in Jammu and Kashmir. During the meeting, initial discussions were held on delimitation of Assembly constituencies in the region.
The meeting was attended by Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora, election commissioners Ashok Lavasa and Sushil Chandra, and other senior officials of poll body.
The discussion on delimitation of constituencies comes days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government at the Centre abrogated Article 370 and announced that the state would be divided into two Union Territories – Jammu and Kashmir with an Assembly, Ladakh without Assembly.
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