Early Times Report
Jammu, Oct 25: Although leaders of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) leaders to fight the Lok Sabha elections jointly to take on BJP, seat sharing is the biggest task before the constituents of the opposition alliance.
Sharing five seats among three constituents of INDIA in J&K, namely Congress, National Conference, and PDP, is a difficult task because these parties are staking claims for maximum seats.
Highly placed sources said that apart from two Lok Sabha seats of Jammu province, Congress will also stake a claim on the newly carved Anantnag-Poonch Lok Sabha constituency to get Lion’s share.
“During a meeting, Congress leaders argued that the party has a strong presence in South Kashmir as well as in the twin border districts of Poonch and Rajouri of Jammu province so the party would be in a position to win this seat easily”, sources said and added that in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections Congress had secured maximum votes from Poonch and Rajouri districts.
As reported earlier, after delimitation boundaries of all five Lok Sabha seats have changed. The entire Poonch district and areas of Rajouri district have become part of South Kashmir with the creation of the Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat. This has assured parity in the Parliamentary seats with Jammu and Kashmir divisions having two and a half seats each.
The entire Poonch district and Rajouri, Nowshera, and Thanna Mandi Assembly constituencies of Rajouri district are part of the Anantnag-Rajouri Parliamentary seat. Anantnag, Kulgam, and Shopian districts will be part of this seat from South Kashmir.
The Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha Constituency comprises Assembly segments including Zainapura, Damhal Hanjipora, Kulgam, Devsar, Dooru, Larnoo, Anantnag West, Anantnag, Pahalgam, Nowshera, Rajouri, Darhal, Thanna Mandi, Surankote, Poonch and Mendhar. |
