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| Jammu's subjugation to continue even post delimitation: Harsh Dev Singh | | Jammu paying price of BJP's double standards | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 25: Alleging perpetuation of bias against Jammu region in the ongoing delimitation of assembly constituencies in J&K, Harsh Dev Singh, Chairman JKNPP lambasted the central government and the delimitation commission for their discriminatory move against the marginalized province and sought equitable share for Jammu region in allocation of assembly seats.
Addressing public meetings in Sangote, Kharwa and lower Kud in Chenani constituency, Singh said that it had paved the way for continued subjugation of Jammu region. Allocating 43 seats for Jammu region as against 47 seats proposed for Kashmir was wholly unjustified in view of the norms and criteria laid down in sec 60 of J&K Reorganization Act for delimiting the Assembly constituencies, said Singh.
Singh pointed that even the Delimitation Commission had admitted that apart from population, the process of delimiting and redefining of the assembly seats would be governed by geographical area, physical features, facilities of communication and public convenience. He said that out of the said factors it was only population factor which weighed in favour of Kashmir region with all other determinants making out a strong case for higher number of assembly seats for Jammu region.
"While the population of Kashmir region was merely 12 percent more than that of Jammu region, the geographical area of Jammu region was almost twice that of former. He said the average size of assembly constituency in Kashmir was 346 sq. km as against the average size of 710 sq. km for an assembly constituency in Jammu. Likewise, with a highly tough terrain, lack of communication facilities and public inconvenience due to huge size of assembly constituencies, Jammu region was entitled to a higher number of seats as compared to Kashmir," said Singh.
Singh said that in Kashmir region, the Gurez constituency had been created with approx 16,000 voters as against more than 1.60 lac voters in Jammu West and Gandhi Nagar constituencies. He said that the BJP government had once again chosen to continue with its appeasement policy for Kashmir and kept the Jammu seats lower than that of Kashmir. Rather than assuring the people to rectify the said imbalances, it was trying to justify its pusillanimity by claiming that Jammu had got six seats out of seven, he said.
"All 90 seats were to be delimited afresh as per the mandate of J&K Reorganization Act assuring justice to each region as per the prescribed parameters. And the fact remains that the BJP and its associate members have utterly failed to ensure justice to the incarcerated region making it to reconcile with its second class status as ever before", Harsh said. |
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