Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 20: A day after announcing new office bearers of the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC), the Congress high command has directed local leadership to focus only on the coming Parliamentary elections because chances of the maiden Assembly polls in the Union Territory of J&K are bleak.
Highly placed sources said that the Congress high command has directed the local leadership to prepare panels of candidates for Jammu and Udhampur Lok Sabha seats as early as possible to start preparations for the Parliamentary elections.
“High command has made it clear that maiden Assembly elections are unlikely to be held before the Lok Sabha polls so it unwise to waste time on assembly polls”, sources said and added that newly appointed office bearers would be assigned jobs very soon for the Parliamentary elections.
The last assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir were held in December 2014 and since June 20, 2018, the region has been without any elected government.
First there was a Governor's rule for 182 days and then the President's rule was imposed on December 29 which continues till now, Jammu and Kashmir has been without any elected government.
While Parliamentary elections are going to be held in India next year, the Election Commission has not issued a notification regarding the assembly elections of Jammu and Kashmir.
As far as the electoral roll is concerned, before the abrogation of Article 370, there were a total of 78,44,343 voters in Jammu and Kashmir, including 159 transgenders, 37,15,891 women and 40,68,185 male voters.
According to the Election Commission’s latest handbook, there are currently 76,29,099 general voters in Jammu and Kashmir. |
