Early Times Report
DoDa, Dec 26: Thathri Development Front (TDF), District Doda has demanded constitution of Delimitation Commission and rotation of reserved assembly Constituencies besides suitable amendment in the Panchayati Raj Act Kuldeep Kumar Rao, president TDF said that the people of Jammu province have never got what was their genuine due share in the socio-economic and political processes during all these more than 70 years of the state's accession to India. It is Jammu based leadership that is responsible for the step-motherly treatment being meted out to the people of this province, as also for the prevailing discontent in this region. There is hardly any section of society in Jammu region which is happy. Had the Jammu leadership, like its counterpart in Kashmir discharged its obligations towards this region and played a pro-active role in the state cabinet, Legislative Assembly & Legislative Council, the story of Jammu province today would have been totally different. Rao asked the Congress, NPP & BJP's former legislators that who helped Farooq Abdullah Government in February 2002 which made amendment in the state constitution to bar delimitation of Assembly constituencies for more than three decades? Almost all the law-makers from Jammu, including those from Congress, voted for the anti-democratic amendment.
Even Ghulam Nabi Azad, who claims that he belongs to Jammu, hit the people of Jammu province below the belt by rejecting the Wazir Commission report that had recommended three new districts for Jammu and one for Kashmir and created eight new districts, four each for Jammu region & Kashmir region adding that Azad had defended the anti-Jammu decision saying he believed in the principle of equality. |
