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| Proposal of Delimitation Commission: PoJK refugees feel cheated, betrayed | | |
Early TImes Report
Jammu, Dec 23: As the Delimitation Commission has prepared its draft report for increasing assembly constituencies in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, refugees from Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir are feeling cheated and betrayed by political parties.
After the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had constituted the delimitation commission to redraw the territorial limits of 90 assembly segments of the newly created Union Territory (UT) of J&K, POJK refugees have raised the demand of de-freezing the seats “reserved” for them to address their political aspirations.
The delimitation commission had the mandate to redraw territorial limits of 90 assembly segments of J&K so PoJK refugees were hoping that their long-pending would be fulfilled through this panel.
In the Legislative Assembly of the erstwhile State of J&K 24 seats were reserved for the residents of PoJK who were part of undivided J&K before 1947. Refugees from PoJK living on this side of LoC have raised the demand of de-freezing at-least eight of these reserved seats as per the proportion of their population. In the Reorganization Act of J&K passed by both Houses of Parliament on August 6, 2019, the UT of J&K has been granted 90 assembly segments with an increase of seven seats.
The erstwhile State of J&K had 87 assembly segments but after Ladakh was carved out a separate UT; its four Assembly seats were reduced from J&K, leaving 83 seats Assembly for the UT.
In the Legislative Assembly of the J&K 24 seats have been kept “reserved” to give representation to the areas of undivided J&K, presently occupied Pakistan.
In undivided J&K there were 111 assembly seats before 1947.
As 33 percent population from occupied areas had migrated to this side of LoC in 1947, refugees from those areas raised the demand of allotting those reserved seats as per their population. |
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