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| Announce separate Assembly constituency for Pancheri, Lander, Bhamag: Harsh | | JKNPP holds protests, seeks equal seats for Jammu, Kashmir regions | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Dec 27: Demanding allocation of Assembly seats between Jammu and Kashmir regions on 50:50 basis, the activists of NPP led by Harsh Dev Singh Chairman JKNPP today held a massive protest demonstration outside Nirvachan Bhawan Jammu. The protesters raised slogans against BJP govt and Delimitation commission accusing them of perpetuating bias against the incarcerated land of Dogras which has continued to be deprived by successive regimes.
Seeking justice to the hitherto deprived Jammu region in the ongoing process of delimitation of assembly constituencies, Harsh Dev Singh said that nothing short of equal seats for the region is acceptable. He said that the meeting of the Delimitation Commission with associate members held on December 20 was expected to end all political bias against Jammu region and provide justice to both regions by ensuring parity of assembly seats between the two provinces." The proposed allocation of 43 seats to Jammu region as against 47 for Kashmir had once again belied the expectations of Jammu region and exposed BJP for uts duplicity and double standards", he said. Singh further sought allocation of at least 5 Assembly seats to district Udhampur including a separate Assembly constituency for Pancheri, Lander, Bhamag area so as to satisfy the urges of people inhabiting this remotest belt.
Asserting that the delimitation exercise was governed mainly by the two factors namely population and geographical area, Singh called for due weightage to each of the said determinants. While Kashmir region had a slightly higher population than Jammu region, the geographical area of the latter was almost twice that of the former.
"We had submitted the plea to the Commission that there should be at least parity between the Assembly seats of both the regions. Keeping this in view, out of proposed 90 Assembly seats to be reorganized, carved and recreated in the entire UT of J&K, 45 each should be allocated to both Jammu and Kashmir regions. Our plea and rationale were acknowledged and endorsed by the Delimitation Commission as well. It must act and deliver now", Harsh divulged.
Singh said that the Delimitation report should be immediately put in public domain. Any further delay would only help bolster the narrative that the delimitation commission and BJP govt are hand in glove in delaying and denying democracy in the erstwhile state of J&K, maintained Singh.
Prominent among those who participated in the protest included Rajesh Padgotra, Gagan Pratap, Purshotam Parihar, Surinder Chouhan, Mohinder Singh, Govind Ram and Raj Pratap Singh. |
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