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Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 5: The June 4 move of the Union Government that is mulling to set up a delimitation commission in the state to remove regional disparity or give proper representation to Jammu in the Legislative Assembly has evoked response from Kashmir and Jammu on expected lines. Jammu has welcomed the move and Kashmiri leaders, including Mehbooba Mufti, Omar Abdullah, Sajad Lone and bureaucrat-turned-politician Shah Faesal have denounced the move.
Mehbooba Mufti has termed the proposed delimitation exercise as another emotional partition on communal lines. Sajad Lone and Faesal have termed the move "very serious". Omar Abdullah has accused the BJP of not treating Jammu & Kashmir at par with other states of the Union.
Asserting that a freeze on delimitation has been applied to the entire country, including Jammu & Kashmir, until 2016, NC vice president Omar Abdullah said: Till the time the freeze ends in the entire country, his party will oppose tooth and nail, any attempt to make changes without a mandate from the people of the state". "It's rather surprising that the saffron party, which talks about bringing J&K at par with other states wants to treat the state differently from other states in this one respect," he further said while opposing the Union Government's other rational and just hope.
It appears Omar Abdullah is blissfully ignorant about the truth. The truth is that the BJP-led NDA government in 2002 had initiated a process of delimitation of Assembly and parliamentary constituencies. It set up Kuldip Singh Commission, but, sadly, it agreed to keep Jammu & Kashmir out of its purview.
All this should put things in perspective and call the bluff of the NC, as also of the BJP. The BJP in the sense that it was the Vajpayee-led government at the Centre which kept Jammu & Kashmir out of the purview of the Kuldip Singh Commission and it was the 8 BJP MLAs in Jammu & Kashmir who had made common cause with the anti-Jammu Farooq Abdullah Government. |
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