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| Ensure parity between Jammu, Kashmir regions in Assembly, Parliamentary seats: Harsh | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 7: Describing the Delimitation report recently submitted by the Commission to the Associate members as biased, defective and anomalous, a huge contingent of NPP led by Harsh Dev Singh Chairman JKNPP and former Minister held a massive protest demonstration outside Nirvachan Bhawan today. The protesters seeking parity between the two regions of J&K in the matter of allocation of Assembly and Parliamentary seats called for removal of all imbalances as well as deficiencies in the report. They raised slogans against BJP govt and Delimitation Commission for conniving in the process of preparation of draft report and ignoring the suggestions given by the opposition parties and civil society during their interaction with the Commission.
Speaking on the occasion, Harsh Dev Singh accused the Delimitation Commission of having ignored the ground situation and prepared the draft as per the dictations of the ruling party. "The constituencies have been created casually in a haphazard manner by defying the prescribed parameters governing the process of Delimitation. The Assembly seats have been created and redrawn keeping the political expediencies of the ruling party in consideration and overlooking the convenience of the general masses. The result was massive disenchantment and resentment brewing amongst the public particularly in the rural and remote areas. Moreover, 47 seats had been allocated for Kashmir against 43 for Jammu region, the imbalance in Parliament was allowed to continue with a portion of Jammu region having been annexed with Anantnag Parliament seat of Kashmir. Not only that several areas of Jammu region which had remained reserved for 27 years , since the last delimitation exercise of 1995, were again included in reserved constituencies thereby defeating the very objective behind rotation of seats at the time of every fresh delimitation", stated Singh.
Pointing towards some of the instances, Singh said that Dudu, Jakhed, Sira, Kullakh, Pattangarh, Barmeen-Satyalta areas had remained a part of SC reserved constituency of Chenani for the last 27 years but had again been included in Ramnagar which had been declared reserved for SC. He said that there were several areas in every district of J&K which had been similarly treated giving rise to massive resentment therein amongst the masses. The fundamental basis of terrain ,topography, facilities of communication and public convenience which ought to have been accorded primordial consideration were conventionally ignored., divulged Singh. Further, drawing attention towards the inclusion of Rajouri and Poonch districts of Jammu region in Anantnag constituency of Kashmir division, Mr. Singh said that it was the most obnoxious and intriguing aspect of the delimitation exercise. "It was most abhorrable attempt to break J&K on communal lines in conformity with the recommendations made in the nasty Dixon plan. While the BJP govt had assured parity in Parliamentary seats for Jammu and Kashmir regions, it ended up in a sabotage with secular Jammu region having been vertically divided on communal lines to sub serve the religio-political agenda of saffron brigade", said Singh. He called upon Delimitation Commission to review its draft report and remove all the defects and anomalies which were anti-people, arbitrary and based on communal lines.
Prominent among those who spoke on the occasion included Rajesh Padgotra, Gagan Pratap Singh Parshotam Parihar, Rampaul Sharma, Surinder Chauhan, Mohider Singh, Ashfaq Rana, Arif Ali, Maqbool Malik, Abdul Ahad Nazar, Mehrajuddin, Ghulam Nabi Khatana, Khajoor Singh besides others. |
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