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| BJP Govt, Delimitation Commission undermining democratic legitimacy: Harsh Dev | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 27: Chairman-JKNPP and former Minister Harsh Dev Singh on Thursday lamented over the ambiguity surrounding the Delimitation Commission, stating that such a trend has led to chaos on the ground amongst the public circles.
"No one knows exactly which seats are proposed for reservation and which are to be reserved giving rise to speculations and rumors being spread in the public and social media. This has also led to public unrest in several areas due to fake, unauthenticated reports being circulated by lumpen elements," Singh said.
He said that it was amusing to note that after a period of several months since its constitution, the Delimitation Commission had nothing to share with the Associate members except a verbal statement that 9 seats were to be reserved for STs, 7 for SCs and out of 7 additional seats, 6 seats were proposed for Jammu region and 1 for Kashmir. Neither the names of reserved seats were shared nor were the members apprised of the names of 7 new Assembly seats. The members were simply asked to give their objections/comments with regard to the aforesaid proposal without elucidating them. The Delimitation Commission remained silent over the names of the proposed 90 constituencies or the territorial jurisdiction of the said seats thereby making a mockery of the members so invited to the meeting.
Referring to the Delimitation Commission's statements over the number of reserved seats for STs and SCs, Singh said that there was nothing new in it. The J&K Reorganization Act passed in August 2019 had envisaged 90 Assembly seats for J&K UT and in view of the existing 10% reservation of STs and 8% for SCs, it was a matter of common sense that 9 seats would go to SCs and 7 to SCs. So what has the Delimitation Commission practically done to actually delimit the 90 seats assigned to it, was the pertinent question which unfortunately none of the Associate members raised in the meeting. He said that the meeting was merely an eyewash and proved that no business whatsoever had been transacted by the commission since its constitution with the delimitation process being delayed at the behest of a nonchalant BJP. Accusing the BJP of willfully delaying delimitation and eventually the elections in J&K, Singh observed that liberal democracy was fast being supplanted by pseudo democracy after downgrading the state into UT. |
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