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Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 15: Even as all political parties are demanding that statehood must be granted to the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir before assembly elections, the Union Government on Wednesday reiterated that decision in this regard will be taken at an appropriate time.
In a written reply to the question of Vivek K Tankha, Union Minister of State for Home, Nityanand Rai informed the Rajya Sabha said that there is no timeline to grant statehood to Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh.
The MoS Home, however, said that statehood to Jammu and Kashmir would be granted at an appropriate time.
Recently Union Home Minister Amit Shah has made it clear that elections in J&K will be held after delimitation following which the process of restoration of statehood will start.
“First delimitation will take place and then elections will be held after which the process of statehood restoration will start in accordance with the act of the Parliament”, Shah told in a summit.
In response to the demand of different political parties to grant statehood before elections, Shah said, “They know the order of things to be followed, but they want to create a political dispute by demanding the opposite”.
Regarding the schedule for the assembly elections in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, the MoS Home informed that Parliament that decision to schedule elections is the prerogative of the Election Commission of India. He said that there is no timeline to hold elections in J&K. During this year's Independence Day address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced from the rampart of the Red Fort that preparations were underway for holding assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir in the future. “Giving fair opportunities to the potential of all, this is the real spirit of democracy. Be it Jammu or Kashmir, where the balance of development is now visible on the ground,” the Prime Minister announced.
“The Delimitation Commission has been constituted in Jammu and Kashmir and preparations are on for holding assembly elections in the future,” the Prime Minister said on the occasion of 75th Independence Day. Earlier during the all-party meeting held on June 24, PM Modi had promised to speed up the delimitation process so as to hold assembly elections in J&K. |
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