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| BJP leader's viral telephonic conversation has spilled beans: Harsh Dev Singh | | 'Delimitation report being prepared, modified in BJP office' | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Feb 14: Harsh Dev Singh Chairman, JKNPP has said that the party's allegations of BJP government influencing the Delimitation Commission in preparing the draft report have been vindicated. In the audio-recording which has gone viral, the UT President of BJP is unambiguously making a statement and assuring a BJP leader that he has included a favourable belt of Ramban constituency in the latter's constituency and that there is no reason to worry.
"I have annexed the Assar belt in your constituency. All those voters are yours", Ravinder Raina is heard assuring the BJP leader Shakti Parihar. It is dumbfounding to note that the BJP UT President is claiming to have himself made the modifications in the draft Delimitation report rather than getting it done through the Delimitation Commission. What a mockery. The statement amply demonstrates that the report is being finalized in the office of BJP as had been stated by the NPP leadership earlier as well, said Singh.
"The draft report submitted by the Commission to the Associate members is therefore motivated, biased, defective and anomalous. The suggestions given by the opposition parties and civil society during their interaction with the Commission have been blatantly ignored and the said report seemed to have been prepared keeping the political expediency of the Saffron party in consideration," said Singh while addressing a press conference here today.
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 in conformity with the dictates of the BJP govt thereby overlooking the convenience of the general masses."
Singh said that people's aspirations have been thrown to the winds. 47 seats have been allocated for Kashmir against 43 for Jammu region. 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. Moreover, several weird constituencies have been carved with gross irregularities in their territorial structure lacking justification, rationale and meaning, he said.
Singh said the fundamental basis of terrain, topography, facilities of communication and public convenience which ought to have been accorded primordial consideration were conventionally ignored. "The imbalance in parliament was allowed to continue with a portion of Jammu region having been annexed with Anantnag parliament seat of Kashmir. The inclusion of Rajouri and Poonch districts of Jammu region in Anantnag constituency has been the most obnoxious and intriguing aspect of the delimitation exercise. It was a draconian attempt to break J&K on communal lines in conformity with the recommendations made in the nasty Dixon plan."
Singh called upon the Delimitation Commission to withhold its sanctity and review its draft report to remove all the defects and anomalies which were anti-people, arbitrary and based on communal lines. "Restoration of democracy in J&K with robust public representation is the need of the hour. Any attempt to quell aspirations and wishes of the masses will have volcanic repercussions", he said. |
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