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| SC notice to J&K on delimitation | | | New Delhi Sept 14: In a vociferous argument against the order of Jammu and Kashmir High Court on delimitation of fresh assembly constituencies, the Panthers Party leader Bhim Singh has obtained a direction for the state government to file a reply within four weeks.
According to Bhim, the Supreme Court Division Bench comprising Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan and Justice P. Sadashivam today issued four weeks notice to the Government of Jammu and Kashmir on the special leave petition (SLP) filed by the Jammu and Kashmir National Panthers Party against the judgement of the J&K High Court.
Bhim Singh’s spokesperson stated that JKNPP chairman had filed a petition against the judgement of J&K High Court dated June 2, 2009 in which the court had dismissed Panthers Party writ petition on Delimitation in J&K. Prof Bhim Singh submitted that after amendment of Art 82 of the Constitution of India , Parliament appointed Justice Kuldeep Singh Commission and delimitation was held in respect of all the LoK Sabha Constituencies in India except in J&K. ‘Besides, Delimitation was not held in J&K for the Assembly Constituencies depriving 10 million people of their basic right on the false and mala fide plea that there should be no delimitation till after the census is taken after the year 2026, he stressed. He also argued, if there is no delimitation till 2026, more than 8 Assembly constituencies shall continue reserved for 35 years and the people shall be deprived of the basic and fundamental rights. ‘If the proposition of J&K High Court is accepted that census did not form basic structure of the Constitution and therefore Delimitation is not part of democracy it shall create havoc for parliamentary democracy in the entire country and J&K shall reduce to a serfdom, he added. The Supreme Court accepted the arguments of the Bhim Singh and issued notice to state government in this regard.
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