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| Clamour grows for de-freezing assembly seats reserved for displaced persons of PoJK | | |
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 6: Demanding for de-freezing assembly seats reserved for displaced persons of Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir gained momentum. During the LG’s Special Governance Camp for Displaced Persons of PoJK, this demand was raised by Dr. Deepak Kapoor, president, PoJK Visthapit Seva Samiti.
While expressing his gratitude towards Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha for accepting most of the demands of PoJK displaced persons, Dr. Kapoor exuded confidence that the demand for de-freezing seats will also be fulfilled before the announcement of assembly polls in J&K.
Important to mention here that the Election Commission of India (ECI) made it clear that the matter is under the jurisdiction of the Union Government.
Responding to the appeal of a Jammu-based lawyer, ECI said that the Central Government may consider giving representations to displaced persons of PoJK in the assembly of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
The Delimitation Commission, while submitting its final report for the delimitation of 90 Assembly constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir on May 5, 2022 had recommended that the Central Government may consider giving the displaced persons of PoJK some representation in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly by way of the nomination of their representatives.
In the Legislative Assembly of the erstwhile State of J&K, 24 seats were reserved for the residents of PoJK who were part of the undivided J&K before 1947. Refugees from PoJK living on this side of the Line of Control (LoC) have raised the demand of de-freezing at least eight of these reserved seats as per the proportion of their population.
In the Reorganization Act of J&K passed by both Houses of Parliament on August 6, 2019, the UT of J&K has been granted 90 assembly segments with an increase of seven seats.
In the Legislative Assembly of the J&K 24 seats have been kept “reserved” to give representation to the areas of undivided J&K, presently occupied Pakistan. In the undivided J&K, there were 111 assembly seats before 1947.
As 33 percent population from occupied areas had migrated to this side of LoC in 1947, refugees from those areas raised the demand of allotting them those reserved seats as per their population. |
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