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| JK delimitation would have taken place under Azad govt: Congress | | | New Delhi | Aug 20
Congress on Wednesday said that delimitation in Jammu and Kashmir would have taken place had the government under Ghulam Nabi Azad continued in office.
"The government and the Cabinet headed by Azad had resolved to go in for delimitation according to Constitutional provisions and passed a resolution to appoint a delimitation commission," said Congress media department chief M Veerappa Moily in a statement.
He alleged the rumours spread by the BJP that Congress is not interested in delimitation are totally false.
"The Delimitation Act should have come before the legislature but it could not result in legislation in view of the dissolution of the Assembly ... Further, it also required 2/3rd support of the members of the House and it could not have been passed without the support of other political parties..." Moily said.
Attacking the BJP, he alleged that the present policy pursued by the BJP is only the revival of the stand which was taken by L K Advani on dividing Jammu and Kashmir into three states when he was the Deputy Prime Minister in NDA government.
Moily claimed that the flow of Amarnath yatris has increased manifold under the Azad government and earlier the Congress alliance government. He said it has increased to 529,697 in 2008 as compared to 153,314 in 2003.
He also claimed that the promises made by the Congress in the last elections have been by and large implemented. |
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