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| Delimitation panel almost completes its job | | Report to be submitted to associate members soon | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Nov 26: The Delimitation Commission headed by Justice (Retd) Ranjana Prakash Desai has almost completed its findings and the report is likely to be submitted to associate members of the panel.
Highly placed sources said that panel has almost drafted its report and the same will be distributed to all five associate members of the panel.
After the bifurcation of J&K into two Union Territories, J&K UT has five members in the Lok Sabha including Minister of State Jitendra Singh. Farooq Abdullah, Akbar Lone, and Hasnain Masoodi from the NC represent three Valley seats while Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh Jugal Kishore Sharma are the Lok Sabha members from Udhampur-Doda and Jammu-Poonch constituencies respectably.
“After sharing the report with associate members, the same will be put in the public domain to seek any objections from political parties, social groups or any individual”, sources said, adding, “Delimitation Commission has to complete the whole process by the end of March next year”.
The Delimitation Commission for Jammu and Kashmir, headed by retired Supreme Court Judge Ranjana Prakash Desai was constituted by the Centre on March 6, 2020, to redraw Lok Sabha and assembly constituencies of the Union Territory under the provisions of the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation Act, 2019, which bifurcated the erstwhile state into union territories of J&K and Ladakh.
The elections to the Assembly of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir will be held only after the process of delimitation is completed.
On June 23, the Delimitation Commission had held consultations with all Deputy Commissioners of J&K on restructuring the existing assembly constituencies and carving out seven new seats. In the virtual meeting, inputs were gathered on how to make the assembly seats more geographically compact.
Some assembly seats in Jammu and Kashmir have to be reserved, first time, for the Scheduled Tribes as part of the delimitation exercise. After the delimitation exercise, the number of assembly seats in Jammu and Kashmir will go up from 83 to 90. Twenty-four seats of the Assembly continue to remain vacant as they fall in Pakistan-occupied Jammu Kashmir (PoJK).
After its constitution, the first meeting of the Delimitation Commission was held on February 18 this year but the same was boycotted by the principal opposition party National Conference. The meeting was held to seek suggestions/views on the process of delimitation in respect of the union territory.
Members of the Delimitation Commission had visited Jammu and Kashmir from July 9 to July 9 and got first-hand information from the grassroots.
During a three-day-long stay in J&K, members of the panel interacted with all stakeholders including political parties, officers, and public representatives. |
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